Privacy act family hippa?

I am a RVO Sales and my daughter got caught up in drugs pretty bag. We sent her to two of the best care facilities we could find and after 120 days she came home. She is 6 months sober and doing well.

Mr Sr V. P told me that it was it was my duty to tell my RVP peers and my subordinate sales mananger's that report to me what happened to my daughter, and what I had gone through over that last year. He said this would help explain some missed conference calls because of some Fridays I would use for taking vacation days to travel out of state to visit my daughter.

I expressed that I did not think this was a good idea. On our second conversation he asked me if I had followed through with his request. I said I have only told my two Peers that I directly work with. He stated I needed to talk to my subs. At our sales meeting a long time sales rep that I know well came by and put his hand on my shoulder and said " I'm sorry to hear about your daughter, I'm praying for you and your family".

I've been told that what my direct supervisor told me to do is a direct violation of a privacy act law, or hippa laws since she was under treatment.

Please advise I would much appreciate it

Thanks,

Kirk K Billingsley

Sorry no, since he nor you are medical professionals, there is no protection under this law about this. If your work place has a substance abuse policy it may be covered under company policy.

When told to do this did you contact HR about it. But he would have been free to tell anyone why you were missing the calls and such. I guess he preferred to have you do it.

HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Privacy Act) is in regards to the medical team treating your doctor. Look at it this way, it's what is considered doctor/patient privilege. Since this person was not your daughter's doctor/nurse/counselor, no form of HIPAA was violated.

What most likely happened was that one of the 2 peers you told, told other people. That's not HIPAA, that's DRAMA.