Wiki Pt information

[twiegel24@yahoo.com]

Patients insurance that we have is incorrect, can we contact PCP to get correct insurance information?

 

[thomas7331]

Providers who are treating the same patient are permitted to share protected information under the HIPAA law for purposes of treatment, payment and healthcare operations:

A covered entity may disclose protected health information to another covered entity or a health care provider (including providers not covered by the Privacy Rule) for the payment activities of the entity that receives the information.
For example:
-A physician may send an individual’s health plan coverage information to a laboratory who needs the information to bill for services it provided to the physician with respect to the individual.
-A hospital emergency department may give a patient’s payment information to an ambulance service provider that transported the patient to the hospital in order for the ambulance provider to bill for its treatment

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-profe...ent-payment-health-care-operations/index.html

 

[twiegel24@yahoo.com]

Thank you, that's what I thought, wanted another opinion.