[Magdalen] HIPAA Redux

[Jay Weigel]

Per my GYN, who literally saved my life 3 years ago, if you are
post-menopausal and HPV negative and do not have a new sexual partner, you
may not need yearly pap smears. If you have had a hysterectomy, you
absolutely do not. There are new guidelines, but not all docs go by them.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:41 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>