Can my health care provider fax information to an insurance company (or any other company as far as that goes) without my knowing it or authorizing it ?
Health care providers must present you with a Notice of Privacy Practices. In this notice, the provider will state who they provide information to. Health plans will be noted as a group that they supply protected health information to for provision of payment. Health care providers may share information with other health care providers for treatment, health plans for payment, and other specific entities in regards to health care operations. You can request an accounting of disclosures from your health care provider for all those disclosures that must be accounted to the individual upon request. And also there are certain cases where sharing of your information will require your authorization. I suggest you review your provider’s Notice of Privacy Practices and then discuss all of these concerns with the provider’s privacy officer which will be noted in the notice.
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