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KY12851
Oct 12, 2010, 07:13 PM
Is is a violation of HIPPA law to disclose to one patient, that someone they know is also a patient of the same doctor's office?

Fr_Chuck
Oct 12, 2010, 07:17 PM
Perhaps, of course when I register at my doctor, we all sign a list, everyone who visited that day has their name written down.

Also when they come out to get me, they call my name out loudly ( hard of hearing) so any and everyone in room knows who I am

KY12851
Oct 12, 2010, 07:30 PM
Well, I know that person was not in the office at the time (I would not have gone in), or later in the day - I believe the office worker told him outside of the office that I was now a patient of the same doctor.