HIPAA/marketing question

Written by Reed Tinsley | June 30, 2008

 

Would it violate HIPAA if a hospital foundation was provided access to a listing of the hospitals caridac rehab patients so the foundation could solicit donations from those patients for help in developoing a cardiac care center?  The solicitation would be more in the form of face-to-face meetings with selected patients rather than a direct mail campaign.

 

CMS has been very clear that the fund raising exception does not allow a covered entity to share any diagnostic related with a foundation.  The foundation may neither receive a list of cardiac patients nor request a list of patients broken out by diagnosis.   All that may be shared is demographic information.

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