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    Wiki Parents Making Appointments For Their Adult Children

    I believe that it's a HIPAA violation to allow a parent to make a medical appointment for their adult child (over 18). We are a pediatricians office so this happens regularly - and usually a month or two after the child turns 18. I'm getting pushback and would like to gather other feedback...
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    Wiki HIPAA timeframe for completing documentation for an encounter

    This may be an unusual question, but I'm hoping someone out there can guide me to the answer. The provider at my clinic is from a much older generation. As such, he has been rather slow to embrace EMR and relies heavily on his handwritten notes when examining patients. After the encounter, the...
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    Wiki Hipaa and CPS

    If you see a possible example of child abuse/endangerment, and you DO NOT see that the dr. has reported it, can we as coders report? Or is that against HIPAA? Can you just say that you think there might be child endangerment, but not any of the circumstances behind it? Or is just giving a...
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    Wiki Best practices neeed: HIPAA Security -Information Sys Activity -Chart Access audits

    Our entity has decided that we should conduct random chart access audits for compliance 164.308. Essentially we will be auditing random charts to see which staff have been accessing the chosen random charts during a period of time to confirm that they were within their employed "role" when...
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    Wiki HIPAA Privacy Notice

    :confused: Our office is reviewing our Privacy Practices to make sure we are compliant with the HIPAA Omnibus rule enacted in 2013. There is some discussion about whether or not a new patient has to be give all 5 pages of the Privacy Notice, or if a summary of the Privacy notice is compliant as...
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    Wiki Join Petition to Edit HIPAA Language

    Your help is needed. Please review the following petition link and sign. HIPAA Privacy Rule "Right of Access" the designated record set 45CFR164.501...
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    Wiki Hipaa violations and state auditors

    Is it a hipaa violation to allow an auditor to use a providers office to work in while they do an audit? I realize that the auditor has the right to request any records they need to complete the audit. However, I am unsure if that is the same as allowing them to be in a messy office with...
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    Wiki Provider signature rules

    Is a provider required to view and sign patient records received form another provider outside of the practice that was simply sent to us as an FYI and is added to our medical record on the patient? Is there any legal liability in the provider being aware of these external records and/or...
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    Wiki HIPAA rules

    Can someone tell me if we do not have the patient's signature on the HIPAA form, are we able to go ahead and bill his insurance? He did give us his insurance information, we just neglected to get his signature on some forms.
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