[Magdalen] HIPAA Redux

[Lynn Ronkainen]

my point was that insurance only covers some of these procedures as per the 
CDC recommendations
if your doc tries to bypass the system, a procedure outside of the 
recommendations flags 'a problem' (IOW you have a problem) which increases 
your insurance.

Lynn, counting the days till Medicare 2 years 5 months...

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:56 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] HIPAA Redux

> 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
>> >
>>