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Re: Gen: HIPAA and confidentiality in minors From: Ronald Ainsworth (ainsron@sbcglobal.net) Wed Mar 25 08:54:17 2009 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Richard Chudacoff: "Re: Pap/colpo question" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Gen: HIPAA and confidentiality in minors" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gen: HIPAA and confidentiality in minors" I sent the PDF file with California Medical Associaton's spin on your question. I'm sure Georgia law is similar. Minors have a right to seek medical treatment w/o parental consent for pregnancy, STDs and contraception. It's probably a protected right under federal law as well. HIPPA does not allow us to give that information to parents w/o the patients consent. The other side is that the patient is responsible for payment for the care they seek w/o parental involvement and it gets a little sticky if they are covered under the parents insurance and you bill the insurance. In that circumstance the parent will ultimately find out whether they like it or not. Ron --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. <garrys@mindspring.com> wrote: > From: Garry E. Siegel, M.D. <garrys@mindspring.com> > Subject: Gen: HIPAA and confidentiality in minors > To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net> > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6:19 PM > In our state, a pregnant woman has the right to make > decisions, give > consent, etc., regardless of age. > > For NOT pregnant people, what do you guys suggest? > > >From time to time, a mother of a teen patient might > call in for a > prescription refill for her daughter? Is that OK? > > Does it matter if we have the daughter sign a form allowing > specific > people to be involved in her care? > > We recently had a run-in with a dissatisfied mother who > ultimately left > the practice over something like this (I don't know the > details). > > We want to maintain the vital confidentiality that teens > need, and we > don't want to violate HIPAA. And, perhaps thirdly, we > would like to use > common sense, i.e. refill the birth control pills for a > teen! > > Suggestions/thoughts? > > Garry > > -- > Garry E. Siegel, M.D. > Private Practice > Roswell, GA Next message: Richard Chudacoff: "Re: Pap/colpo question" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Gen: HIPAA and confidentiality in minors" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gen: HIPAA and confidentiality in minors"

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