Tag Archives: HIPAA regulations for psychotherapy notes
Treatment Records – Providing a Summary
What right, if any, does a mental health practitioner in your state have to provide the patient with a summary of the treatment records [...]
Patient Access to “Psychotherapy Notes”
Under federal regulations implementing HIPAA, a patient has certain rights with respect to inspecting and copying their health records [...]
Psychotherapy Notes/Records
In a prior Avoiding Liability Bulletin (June, 2005 - Volume No.2), under the topic of “HIPAA – Patient Access to Records,” the [...]
Confidentiality and Authorization Forms
… One of the public policy principles that the HIPAA regulations were influenced by was the public policy incorporated in one state’s [...]
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
… While confidentiality is generally considered to be a cornerstone of psychotherapy, most mental health practitioners realize that [...]