When seeing WIC clients that are private patients of physicians, what do we need to do to be HIPAA compliant when calling the physicians office to obtain height, weight, hemoglobin results?
A. If the client is the physician’s private patient and has been referred to the health department for WIC, it is the physician’s responsibility to obtain the appropriate consents and authorizations from the patient in order to release information to the health department as that information is part of the medical record belonging to the physician’s office.
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