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General Surgery Coding Alert

Compliance:

Silence HIPAA Misconceptions About PHI Disclosure

Published on Wed Aug 18, 2021

Give patients requested records. Keeping protected health information (PHI) private is good — unless personnel in your surgery practice block appropriate disclosure requests. Problem: Not performing a permissible PHI disclosure can get you in just as much trouble as performing a prohibited PHI release. Solution: Check out the following four common misconceptions on PHI disclosures under HIPAA, along with tips [...]
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