Tag Archives: hipaa privacy rule
HIPAA’s PRIVACY RULE and STATE PRIVACY/CONFIDENTIALITY LAWS – CONFLICTS
Mental health practitioners and health care entities must determine whether or not they are “covered providers” or “covered entities” [...]
Patient Access to Treatment Records
While mental health treatment records are owned by the practitioner (assuming a private practitioner/sole proprietorship), patients [...]
Keeping Your License – Some Thoughts
The most valuable business asset you have is your license. While I have known people who have had their licenses revoked and continued [...]
HIPAA – “Covered Providers”
Now that I mentioned HIPAA, why are so many practitioners under the impression that they are “covered providers” under HIPAA (the [...]
Subpoena for Records and Notes
Suppose the therapist’s mental health records and notes regarding the patient are subpoenaed by the defendant (the former employer) [...]
HIPAA, FERPA, and Student Health Records
As a result of confusion among health care professionals and school administrators throughout the country, the U.S. Department of [...]
ABC’s of Avoiding Liability – H: HIPAA
What agency of government investigates patient complaints for a violation of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule? Is it a complete defense to such a [...]
“Duty To Warn”
… Only (my tongue is firmly implanted in cheek) thirty-six years after the landmark Tarasoff vs. Regents of the University of [...]
Duty to Warn
Media coverage of the March 2015 tragic airplane crash in the French Alps once again brought to the fore the related issues of a [...]
Confidentiality and the Dangerous Patient
Although I have previously written about this topic on several occasions (see Archives), the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April [...]
Confidentiality and HIPAA
… How do your state laws interact with HIPAA regulations, primarily the “Privacy Rule?” What efforts are being made in your state to [...]
Exception
… What is the right of a therapist or counselor to communicate with other health care providers or facilities without the patient’s [...]