Health Information Compliance Alert
Reader Questions:
Send Your NPP to Participants Only
Published on Fri Mar 27, 2009
Question:
Answer: "No," assures William Hubbartt of Hubbartt & Associates in St. Charles, IL. You must only provide the health plan participant with your NPP, he says.
Bottom line: You can provide your notice to participants' dependents if they request it, but you are not required to by the privacy rule.
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