tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 24

Hipaa Compliance: Physician Faces up to 5 Years in Prison for Sharing Medical Information With Patient's Employer

Here's how you can avoid facing a similar fate.HIPAA enforcement is still going full-throttle, and you don't want to end up facing jail time over potential breaches. One Virginia-based physician is looking at just that after spilling a patient's protected health information (PHI), and the government couldn't be more serious about pursuing the case.The background: A Suffolk, Va.-based physician provided inpatient mental health treatment to a patient in 2007, and documented that the patient was not a danger to others. The following year, however, the physician disclosed PHI about the patient to an agent of the...

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