The Health Information Portability and Acountability Act (HIPAA) stipulates the following patient’s right under its privacy rule:
- Patients have a right to receive a notice of the privacy practices of any health care provider health clearing house, or health plan.
- Patients have a right to see their PHI and get a copy.
- Patients have a right to request that changes be made to correct errors in their records or to add information that ha been omitted.
- Patients have a right to see a list of some of the disclosures that have been made of their PHI.
- Patients have a right to request that you give special treatment to their PHI.
- Patients have a right to request confidential communications.
- Patients have a right to complain.