Unsealed Indictment
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Reading the indictment, it's not clear that he shared patient information that was private, but he accessed it without authorization. After accessing it, he shared information that didn't reveal identities.
Am I getting that right?
@George-K said in Unsealed Indictment:
Reading the indictment, it's not clear that he shared patient information that was private, but he accessed it without authorization. After accessing it, he shared information that didn't reveal identities.
Am I getting that right?
You are.
You never accessed info on a patient you weren't working on? I've done it.
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I think so. Yes, he should not have accessed it without authorization. But this stuff goes on day in and day out, and he may in fact have had authorization, which is a somewhat murky subject. Was he involved in the patients' treatment at all? Was he their physician otherwise?
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I think so. Yes, he should not have accessed it without authorization. But this stuff goes on day in and day out, and he may in fact have had authorization, which is a somewhat murky subject. Was he involved in the patients' treatment at all? Was he their physician otherwise?
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It seems to me that this will be a case of whistleblower protections vs the procedural authorizations attached to HIPAA. The fact that the spirit and purpose of HIPAA wasn’t violated and the purpose for breaking the procedures was to reveal the fraud by the hospital seems to be the essence of the various whistleblower protections.
The Brad
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Second Whistleblower speaks out…
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It looks like the Texas AG is about to go after the hospital for Medicaid fraud. Evidently, after they stopped Gender Affirming Care, they had an extraordinary number of young girls treated for low testosterone levels…
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It seems to me that this will be a case of whistleblower protections vs the procedural authorizations attached to HIPAA. The fact that the spirit and purpose of HIPAA wasn’t violated and the purpose for breaking the procedures was to reveal the fraud by the hospital seems to be the essence of the various whistleblower protections.
@LuFins-Dad said in Unsealed Indictment:
It seems to me that this will be a case of whistleblower protections vs the procedural authorizations attached to HIPAA.
Spitballing here but maybe they’re independent. Whistleblower protection will be a state thing while HIPAA will be federal.
