Case Study: Limiting Use & Disclosure of PHI

You are the customer service representative in a clinical laboratory. You get a call from someone at a local gastroenterologist's office, with whom you are personally familiar, requesting that you fax results on a patient, which the referring physician's office had failed to provide. The doctor needs the test results immediately.

Under the HIPAA Privacy Regulations the you can comply with this request, without getting written authorization from the patient.

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