Writing Google reviews about patients is actually a HIPAA violation

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A real violation, not like asking about someone’s vaccines.

But asking someone if they’re vaccinated isn’t actually a HIPAA violation. That’s a fine and not-illegal thing for one non-doctor to ask another non-doctor. Whata HIPAA violation is what U. Phillip Igbinadolor, a dentist in North Carolina, did in September 2015, according to. After a patient left an anonymous, negative Google review, he logged on and responded with his own post on the Google page, saying that the patient missed scheduled appointments.

“Does he deserve any rating as a patient? Not even one star,” Igbinadolor wrote, according to theIn the post, he used the patient’s full name and described, in detail, the specific dental problem he was in for: “excruciating pain” from the lower left quadrant, which resulted in a referral for a root canal.looks like. The law says that healthcare providers and insurance companies can’t share identifiable, personal information without a patient’s consent.

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