|
|
| |
Category |
|
Privacy of Health Information/HIPAA
Authorizations
Smaller Providers/Small Businesses
Treatment/Payment/Health Care Operations
|
|
| |
Date Updated |
|
| 11/03/2003 03:04 PM |
|
 Print Answer
 E-mail Answer
|
|
| |
May doctors and other providers share patient health information for treatment without patient authorization? |
|
| |
Question |
| |
Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit doctors, nurses, and other health care providers to share patient health information for treatment purposes without the patient’s authorization? |
|
| |
Answer |
| |
Yes. The Privacy Rule allows those doctors, nurses, hospitals, laboratory technicians, and other health care providers that are covered entities to use or disclose protected health information, such as X-rays, laboratory and pathology reports, diagnoses, and other medical information for treatment purposes without the patient’s authorization. This includes sharing the information to consult with other providers, including providers who are not covered entities, to treat a different patient, or to refer the patient. See 45 CFR 164.506.
|
| |
| |
How well did this answer your question? |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Related Answers |
| | |
|
|
|
