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My medical bills are being sent by default to my husband. Makes me want to SCREAM
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<blockquote data-quote="Tiapet" data-source="post: 528890" data-attributes="member: 455"><p>What everyone says is true about HIPPA, especially the lovely information Star posted. They are in serious violation, fineable! I know you don't want to pursue this but you really need to on principal to "help" them. I recently had a situation with a major university medical center that violated HIPPA. They sent psychiatric records to a lab for not just the child in which they were suppose to send LAB records on ONLY but on a second child that had nothing to do with it!</p><p></p><p>I alerted them to it and they tried <em>desperately</em> to quickly get the faxes of these records back but it was too late. I contacted the office at the time who immediately put me with the head of the admn (after the HIPPA person) who jumped through hoops to do everything she could. They knew I could sue and the fine would be hefty if I pursued this. I just wanted it fixed! So I ended up getting my entire families medical records sent to me, free of charge (usually you have to pay per page). We're talking over 4 years worth of records (mine alone were hundreds of pages). I'm telling you I could hear the ladies voice shake every time I talked with her. She was very very scared and spoke to her staff immediately afterwards and told me of the "re-education" class she was having immediately with her staff so this NEVER happens again! Everytime I called from that point on, I got her immediately, even if she was busy I got put right through. It was like having Carte Blanche there as what they did was a very serious thing.</p><p></p><p>I'm just saying, educate and get it straight regarding HIPPA because it does seem they aren't very well aware of it and if they are, then they don't take it serious enough to know how much trouble they can be in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiapet, post: 528890, member: 455"] What everyone says is true about HIPPA, especially the lovely information Star posted. They are in serious violation, fineable! I know you don't want to pursue this but you really need to on principal to "help" them. I recently had a situation with a major university medical center that violated HIPPA. They sent psychiatric records to a lab for not just the child in which they were suppose to send LAB records on ONLY but on a second child that had nothing to do with it! I alerted them to it and they tried [I]desperately[/I] to quickly get the faxes of these records back but it was too late. I contacted the office at the time who immediately put me with the head of the admn (after the HIPPA person) who jumped through hoops to do everything she could. They knew I could sue and the fine would be hefty if I pursued this. I just wanted it fixed! So I ended up getting my entire families medical records sent to me, free of charge (usually you have to pay per page). We're talking over 4 years worth of records (mine alone were hundreds of pages). I'm telling you I could hear the ladies voice shake every time I talked with her. She was very very scared and spoke to her staff immediately afterwards and told me of the "re-education" class she was having immediately with her staff so this NEVER happens again! Everytime I called from that point on, I got her immediately, even if she was busy I got put right through. It was like having Carte Blanche there as what they did was a very serious thing. I'm just saying, educate and get it straight regarding HIPPA because it does seem they aren't very well aware of it and if they are, then they don't take it serious enough to know how much trouble they can be in. [/QUOTE]
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