Violation of HIPPA Law???

[inga_lee]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL

I recently took my dgtr to the pediatrician. The following day someone from the pediatrician's ofc called to inform me that they needed to call in her prescription to the pharmacists of my choice.

The problem is the telephone # they called is a # that I have asked them (repeatedly) to change because a parent cannot be reached at that telephone # anymore. The # belongs to my dgtr's step-mom (she is not permitted to receive any info. concerning my dgtr's health).

I know that information about her condition was given to the step-mom (because of a comment that was made by my dgtr's father. If he did not know what her condition was, he would not have been able to make such a comment about her condition).

What should I do about this matter?

 

[lealea1005]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL

I recently took my dgtr to the pediatrician. The following day someone from the pediatrician's ofc called to inform me that they needed to call in her prescription to the pharmacists of my choice.

The problem is the telephone # they called is a # that I have asked them (repeatedly) to change because a parent cannot be reached at that telephone # anymore. The # belongs to my dgtr's step-mom (she is not permitted to receive any info. concerning my dgtr's health).

I know that information about her condition was given to the step-mom (because of a comment that was made by my dgtr's father. If he did not know what her condition was, he would not have been able to make such a comment about her condition).

What should I do about this matter?[/QUOTE]

Put your request to change the phone number in writing and ask that the request be placed in your daughter's medical record. The next time you take your child to the Doctor, check to make sure the change has been made.

Oh...and it's HIPAA (Health Information Portability & Accountability Act), not HIPPA.

 

[ecmst12]

You can also complain, in writing, to the office's HIPAA compliance officer.

 

[Isis1]

why doesn't the father know about his own daughter's condition?

 

[Zigner]

As was hinted at by Isis1 - presumably, the contact # for the step-mom is ALSO the contact # for the FATHER.

 

[Isis1]

As was hinted at by Isis1 - presumably, the contact # for the step-mom is ALSO the contact # for the FATHER.

*gasp*

 

[ecmst12]

OP said that a PARENT can't be reached at that number, it must be stepmom's cell phone. Which never should have been listed as a contact in the first place.