Federal RequirementsQuestion 52 of 100
Which action by a pharmacy technician violates the HIPAA Privacy Rule?
a.Submitting a claim with the patient's medication details to the patient's insurer
b.Faxing a refill history to the prescribing physician who is managing the patient's therapy
c.Providing patient records to the pharmacist for an internal medication error review
d.Telling the patient's neighbor which medications the patient picked up that morning
Explanation
Protected health information may be used or disclosed without separate patient authorization for treatment, payment, and health care operations, and disclosures must be limited to the minimum necessary for the purpose. Billing the insurer is payment, faxing the prescriber is treatment, and an internal error review is health care operations, so all three are permitted. Disclosing a patient's medications to a neighbor serves none of these purposes and is a privacy violation.
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