HIPPA VIOLATION?

[Hartley]

Is it a violation for an OC to provide the CA with medical procedures?

 

I received a collection notice from a CA and it came with an itemized summary of the bill which also included all previouse visits to the doctor along with every procedure and the costs.

 

IT shows:

 

Foreign Body removal/cornea

X-Ray abdomen AP & upright

Urinalysis W/MICRO

 

 

Even though it does not provide the diagnosis is the OC allowed to give the CA the medical procedure info?

[Why Chat]

Yes, as long as that information is ONLY relayed to the patient by the CA.

 

Once the bill is paid, there is no longer any permitted purpose.

 

I presume the CA response was to a DV, which has the same effect as a HIPAA release from the patient to the CA.

[Hartley]

No it wasn't from a DV.I thought that I DVd this CA but I got them confused with another CA.

 

This is a 3 year old bill that came out of nowhere.

 

I had a few other accounts with this CA that have been recently deleted and I think that the CA must have over looked this account until now as it has never been reported and I have never received a bill in all of the 3 years.