Reporting a HIPAA Violation

The U.S. Congress approved and Accountability Act Health Insurance Portability Act (HIPAA) to enhance the protection and safeguarding of patients' medical records. As provided by the Department of Health Services (HHS) Social U.S. and all rules and regulations set forth in the HIPAA Privacy Rule must be followed by all government and non-governmental organizations providing health care and services doctors to patients, and their parents and close relatives.





Violations, on the other hand, can vary from a simple denial of access to their medical records to the disclosure and publication of sensitive information to other unauthorized persons by law medical data. When this happens, as a patient or patient's family, you have the right to file a complaint against the doctor. Reports of complaints is quite simple and short process is simple. You can find violations of HIPAA reporting process presented here are helpful.

• Get a copy of the complaint information privacy health. This can help you manage through the details of your complaint and may also assist the Office for Civil Rights, or OCR figure and investigate abuses you said.

• Once you have found a violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the validity reported and submitted within 180 days. However, when the complaint was filed after 180 days, the chances that your complaint is reviewed below, deliver to the secretary of the OCR. Some of the reasons for the delay in reporting should be treated as such by the Secretary. The causes of delays such as accidents, injuries or other personal problems should be evaluated and observed that valid or invalid reasons. Once a valid reason is found, it is only then that the Secretary will go to research your complaint for rape.

• Send the fully furnished promptly to the OCR package by email. The email address OCR is usually found in the website.You can email them for information about the right to privacy in general.

• If email is not available, you can also have all the packet sent by fax or perhaps mail. However, be sure to send all the right OCR office. To ensure that the office where the package is sent is the case, you can try to check the official website of HHS.

• If you missed the deadline to submit complaints to OCR, you can try to contact the entity that you think violated their HIPAA rights. Try to get a copy of the confidentiality policy of the entity. Read the policies and then apply to the entity as a complaint for rape.

Basically, HIPAA has been implemented so that patients feel comfortable and secure their information in this area of ​​sensitive and confidential health should not be shared with others. However, there are some cases in which the law of privacy is violated unconscious and sometimes voluntarily by the custodian of the information. To help you understand your rights as a client and as a patient, you can try a HIPAA training course.