[Magdalen] HIPAA Redux

[ME Michaud]

If you get to a certain age and have never had an abnormal pap
smear, I don't think you need to have them any more. I haven't
had one in a decade. So don't worry, i guess.

We have public health officials who inform partners, but they
just say: you may have been exposed, so see your physicialn
and let us know if you need a referral.
-M

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Conversation with a doc friend who mourned some aspects of HIPAA when she
> was physician for both husband and wife pairs.  Often the husband would be
> diagnosed with a VD and all she could do was tell him to tell all of his
> partners... right.
>
> Probably a lot more upsides than downsides to HIPAA, but I do know that
> all the data they're wringing out of us now on doc visits, being typed
> right into our computer records in the exam room  most times, are becoming
> part of 'the great data mine' for statistics out the wazoo...
>
> I am particularly annoyed that the 'suggestions' from about 5 years ago in
> re women's health - the pap smear and the mammogram not being 'necessary'
> every year any more, have become 'not covered' by insurance' every year any
> more unless there are presenting reasons (any exceptions will up your
> insurance.... existing conditions or potential existing conditions do not
> mean no increase, they just mean no refusal to insure
>