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PROCEDURE 6-2. APPLY HIPAA RULES ON PRIVACY AND RELEASE OF INFORMATION AND REPORT CARON RELEASE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY IN THE HEALTHCARE SETTING TIVITY IN THE HEA CAAHEP COMPETENCIES: X.P.2., X.P.6. ABI IES COMPETENCIES: 4.b., 4.L TASK: Be aware of HIPAA privacy and release of information rules and apply them in the ambulatory care ce Although not specifically required by HIPAA, practices may want to use a routine patient consent form that methods by which a patient agrees to let the practice notify the patient of routine treatment, payment, and healthcare operations (TPO). SCENARIO: You recently graduated from a CAAHEP-accredited medical assisting program and just passed the certi fication examination to carn the CMA (AAMA) credential. You learned a great deal about HIPAA applications in your medical assisting program and are confident that you can apply these regulations in the family practice where you are working. A patient comes to the office today very upset because a message about her laboratory test results was left on her home answering machine, even though she specifically requested in her disclosure consent form that messa be left on her cell phone. Her mother then called the facility and requested information about her diagnosis. How should this situation be handled? The office manager does nothing to correct this error. Can the patient and/or the medical assistant report this infraction of the Privacy Rule to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)? How can this be done? The paticnt decides to switch physicians because of her dissatisfaction with the management of her personal health informa- tion. Role-play the application of HIPAA privacy and release of information rules in this case. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES Computer with Internet access Copy of facility PHI consent form Notice of Privacy Practices fornm Authorization for Release of Medical Records

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The infraction of the privacy can be informed to the OCR by online complaint by a Medical Assistant. A client can anonymously report this to the OCR either by online or by sending a print out of OCR complaint form by mail or fax.According to HIPAA the disclosure of information is brach of confidentiality besides the patient requested to be the report I'm personal cell phone and not the home answering machine.The physician can be fine from $100 _$1.5million for this act.