As employers prepare for possible impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), one important step is to review the types of health disclosures that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does and does not allow in such times of crisis.
Are you having trouble communicating with your patients’ primary care physicians? It’s a problem in the U.S., according to a 2019 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey published by Health Affairs.
Q: HHS recently issued a notice that fee limitations will apply only to an individual’s request for access to their own records and not to an individual’s request to transmit records to a third party. Will limitations imposed by state law now apply?
