There are many HIPAA-compliant health record release forms on the Internet. Find one and complete it so you can obtain a copy of your health records from one of your health care providers. Attach the completed HIPAA release form. STUDY QUESTIONS: 1. List the types of information contained in a health record. 2. As a medical assistant, privileged communication includes your knowledge of the patient. Your office has a famous celebrity as a patient. A well-known newspaper reporter calls and asks you to go to lunch with her. How will you handle this matter? 3. Your office has a strict policy with regard to release of information in health records, and despite a state statute allowing patients access to their records, the physicians you work for will not give patients their records. An obnoxious attorney storms into the office and demands access to your files. The patient has signed a release form. You are at the front desk and the office is full of patients. What do you do? 4. A health record has been subpoenaed and a court order accompanies it. The physician has removed important parts of the record. You know that this information is missing. The office sends you to court as the keeper of the record. You must testify about the completeness of the record. What are you going to say?
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