What does the HIPAA Privacy Rule regulation do?
(A) The HIPAA Privacy Rule creates national standards to protect individuals’ Protected Health Information (PHI), which includes both medical and payment information. It also gives an individual more control over their PHI. It gives individual’s the right to find out how their PHI is used and what disclosures of their information have been made, and the general right to request amendments to their information. It gives patients the right to examine and obtain a copy of their own PHI and request needed additions or corrections. Overall, it limits release of PHI to the minimum reasonably needed for the purpose of the disclosure Violations are subject to both civil and criminal penalties.
