Providing name address, tele. Number to 3rd party a violation?
Is it a violation of the privacy act if an attorney you had retained has a secretary/daughter that give my name, address, and telephone number to a 3rd. Party and told them to bill me instead of the attorney that had requested the medical records for those copies? I then fired the attorney for legal malpractice The records would not have been ordered without his specifically requesting them, and he had me request them because his daughter/secretary did not know how to make out a HIPAA request form. Now, I'm being dunned for payment of the records. The records were for myself for a lawsuit. This occurred AFTER I had fired the attorney.