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Oh give it up already. If this situation happened to you, you would sue & you know it. End of story.
I'm guessing Pedro has screwed up in the past and send out confidential info to the wrong people and thinks that there should be no consequences for that.
The hospital would never have been fined the $387,000 if the patient gave them the wrong fax number to send it to. The fine only happens after the investigation is complete.
Wrong, they get fined if they sent the wrong party the information. Doesn't matter if the patient gave the wrong number or not. If the patient gave them the wrong number, they still get a fine. HIPAA laws don't require who is right or wrong, it only requires if you gave health information to the wrong party... it only punishes, it doesn't care about circumstances...
Yes, as a matter of fact I do. I look at every piece of paper I send out to people before I fax or email it, to make sure it's what I end to send. I'm a lawyer, not a clerk, and that's part of my job. I'm not saying I'm perfect and I never make mistakes, but it's still part of the job to take the time to send the right thing.
Not to mention that when you are dealing with private health information and sensitive and confidential personal information, then it's especially incumbent on individual employees and institutional processes do be in place to double check things.
If you can't grasp this fact, then I hope you never have access to anyone's private information because you clearly lack the understanding of appropriate handling of it.
Ah, a lawyer. That explains why you want these huge paydays.
Ah, a lawyer. That explains why you want these huge paydays.
I worked for the insurance companies/policyholders (defendants), not the plaintiffs. I can still recognize and acknowledge a valid claim when I see one.
Wrong, they get fined if they sent the wrong party the information. Doesn't matter if the patient gave the wrong number or not. If the patient gave them the wrong number, they still get a fine. HIPAA laws don't require who is right or wrong, it only requires if you gave health information to the wrong party... it only punishes, it doesn't care about circumstances...
That doesn't make any sense. Any number that the patient says to send it to is the right number for the hospital to send it to. No hospital is going to be punished for an error the patient made. In this case it was the hospital that made the error not the patient.
That doesn't make any sense. Any number that the patient says to send it to is the right number for the hospital to send it to. No hospital is going to be punished for an error the patient made. In this case it was the hospital that made the error not the patient.
The patient never told them to fax the records to anyone, they were supposed to be mailed out. The error was by the hospital in faxing them in the first place, and then secondly, faxing them to the patient's work email rather than the medical practice they were supposed to go to.
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