Doctor offices viewing all your prescriptions at a pharmacy (exercise, specialists, nurses)
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You might have something to hide if your employer found out you have the gene for some horrible disease like ALS, Huntington's, etc. If you apply for life or disability insurance your medical history is an open book to the insurance companies. They will access your medical records, hospitalization records, prescriptions, everything. If you lie about a prescription you take for, let's say diabetes, and the insurance company finds out they will look at all your medical history with a magnifying glass and they don't like it when applicants lie, because it makes everything else you say suspect. I don't know whether or not the insurance companies are allowed to share that information with the employer. I would think not but who knows.
I've seen people turned down for disability insurance because their mother or father died young of something like cardiac disease or cancer. They also check applicant's social media accounts in case you posted about your recent illness or hospitalization. Insurance companies are in the business to make money and they only want to insure people who are low risk.
I realize I am getting off the subject but people need to be aware that there really is no such thing as privacy anymore.
You might have something to hide if your employer found out you have the gene for some horrible disease like ALS, Huntington's, etc. If you apply for life or disability insurance your medical history is an open book to the insurance companies. They will access your medical records, hospitalization records, prescriptions, everything. If you lie about a prescription you take for, let's say diabetes, and the insurance company finds out they will look at all your medical history with a magnifying glass and they don't like it when applicants lie, because it makes everything else you say suspect. I don't know whether or not the insurance companies are allowed to share that information with the employer. I would think not but who knows.
I've seen people turned down for disability insurance because their mother or father died young of something like cardiac disease or cancer. They also check applicant's social media accounts in case you posted about your recent illness or hospitalization. Insurance companies are in the business to make money and they only want to insure people who are low risk.
I realize I am getting off the subject but people need to be aware that there really is no such thing as privacy anymore.
AND, I repeat for the 3rd or 4th time, this is ONLY STATE DATABASES FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HIPAA allows for the sharing of information. You are giving your consent for the office to give away your information.
It doesn't protect your privacy at all.
If you want privacy? Don't sign HIPAA document. Of course doctor probably won't see you.
Wrong...HIPAA protects your privacy from other people, and from your employer, etc. Remember the days when your medical chart was just hanging right there on your hospital bed, and anyone could look through it...not anymore, because of HIPAA. Remember the days when your employer could ask about your health...not anymore, because of HIPAA. Remember the days when medical office staff could talk about your health with outsiders...not anymore, because HIPAA forbids it. Remember when your mom and dad could snoop around and ask your doctor if you were pregnant, or if you were on birth control pills, or if you were on drugs, or if you were clinically insane...not anymore because of HIPAA j/k, not really.
Your healthcare providers are allowed to share with your other healthcare providers in order to assist in your care.
AND, I repeat for the 3rd or 4th time, this is ONLY STATE DATABASES FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was told by a pharmacist that it was a federal database. I dont take claritin/decongestant thats behind the counter anymore. I dont feel like being carded every time and treated like Im an addict.
I was told by a pharmacist that it was a federal database. I dont take claritin/decongestant thats behind the counter anymore. I dont feel like being carded every time and treated like Im an addict.
State for controlled substances. I don't know about pseudoephedrine, we didn't have to report it when I worked in a pharmacy setting
Really? Do you not honestly inform any doctor you are visiting of your current medications? I'd love to know why not, IMO this is risky behavior, but maybe I'm missing something.
As I said in the OP, "I understand that doctors need to know all meds a patient is taking, but everything the doctors in a given health system have prescribed is already in their system. And I have to fill out a form prior to each app't listing everything I'm taking."
Nothing risky is going on, as I said. Of course I inform my doctor about all meds I am taking, as I said in the OP. My issue is about the chain pharmacy not informing me or asking for my consent that any provider can view all my prescriptions, whether that person prescribed them or not.
Most of those releases you sign at the doctor’s offices cover they sharing of information and anything controlled is released to other health care providers under law in most cases. I know our electronic health system pulls in all controlled substances via our state’s mandatory reporting system so we can see if a patient was prescribed multiple opioids by different doctors etc. I think it’s a great thing for patient safety.
I never signed any "release of information" at the dentist's office, or at the pharmacy. This has nothing to do with controlled substances. The med in question was an antibiotic prescribed by the dentist. I also listed that antibiotic on the form I filled out prior to my appointment with the PCP. I wasn't hiding anything.
My point is about not being informed that any provider can view all chain pharmacy prescriptions, no matter who prescribed them, and not being asked for consent.
Last edited by xz2y; 09-17-2019 at 10:12 PM..
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j/k, not really.
