HIPAA Privacy Regulation

Question

Case Study: Limiting Use & Disclosure of PHI

A nurse from the Winterhaven Outpatient Facility calls requesting an HIV test result on a patient, concealing the fact that she had received a needle stick injury from that same patient. You provide the nurse with the HIV test result.

The nurse's request was appropriate.

Select true or false

True

False

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