RE: Tenant threating me with a Hippa Rights violation
Hi Mary,
DO NOT SEND THIS IDIOT ANY MONEY!!
HIPAA is The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). As far as I know it has to do with protecting health information about an individual.
"Protected Health Information
The Privacy Rule protects individually identifiable health information, called PHI, held
or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form, whether
electronic, paper, or verbal. PHI includes information that relates to all of the following:
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The individual’s past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition
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The provision of health care to the individual
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The past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual
PHI includes many common identifiers, such as name, address, birth date, and Social
Security number."
Visit the HHS
HIPAA Privacy Rule
webpage for more information. (This was from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
As long as you are not sharing his personal info, as listed above, you do not have a HIPAA violation, he's just threating to try and get money out of you. Tell him he can talk to your lawyer...that's usually all you need to say.
Mary L., NH
Posted by
Mary Linn & Rodney F, NH
on
Thursday, September 6, 2018