1. Are location information services of collection agencies, which are required under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, permitted under the HIPAA Privacy Rule?
2. I am a health care provider and my state law says I have to provide a workers' compensation insurer, upon request, with an injured workers' records that rlated to treatment or hospitalization for which compensation is being sought. Am I permitted to disclose the information required by my state law?
3. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit nursing homes and other health care institutions to disclose information concerning admissions of supplemental security income (SSI) recipients to the Social Security Administration (SSA)?
4. How does the HIPAA Privacy Rule change the laws concerning consent for treatment?
5. Won't the HIPAA Privacy Rule's minimum necessary standard impede the ability of workers' compensation insurers, state administrative agencies, and employers to obtain the health information needed to pay injured or ill workers the benefits guaranteed them under state workers' compensation system?
6. My state requires consent to use or disclose health information. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule take away this protection?
7. Why would a HIPAA Privacy Rule require covered entities to turn over anybody's personal health information as part of a government enforcement process?
8. Must a health care provider or other covered entity obtain permission from a patient prior to notifying public health authorities of the occurrence of a reportable disease?
9. Will the Privacy Rule make it easier for police and law enforcement agencies to obtain an individual's medical information?
10. Is a patient's protected health information required to be turned over to the government during a HIPAA enforcement proceeding?
11. Does the rule require a health care provider to send patient medical records to the government?