This Video Is A HIPAA Violation! (According to Wrong People)
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My only issue with vaccine verification: why is the card bigger than my wallet? What barbarian designed this thing?
Get a bigger wallet.
Or just... like... photocopy it and fold the paper into your wallet.
@@arifhossain9751 omg u can't photocopy ur card thats a felony
@@Pyth110
Really? America's fuckin weird dude. We got laws that say photocopies of legal or medical documents count as the real thing.
Cos like... if you lose it, do you REALLY want to sit around waiting for the government or lawyers to send you a new copy? Shit could take MONTHS
@@arifhossain9751 Pretty sure they were being sarcastic.
@@Pyth110 yea im pretty sure that's not true. I literally took my card to be photocopied by my HR yesterday.....
"Violates my HIPPA", is the modern version of "are you an undercover cop? If I ask you, you HAVE to tell me."
@@SuchDoge4242 except there's nothing to say about undercover cops in the Geneva convention
@@SuchDoge4242 have you ever looked up the Geneva Conventions? They are about war not undercover policing.
@@SuchDoge4242
#1: The Geneva conventions only concern the acts of nations, soldiers and paramilitaries in a theatre of war.
#2: Iirc, the US is not a signatory and thus not technically bound by them anyway.
@@SonsOfLorgar So you are saying that USA can, kinda of, commit war crimes?
That's crazy.
@@SonsOfLorgar #1 I agree with and understand, yet still feel my example is of relevance. #2 wrong, we do abide by the geniva convention. We did in Korea, Vietnam, and the war on terror from a political standpoint. The geniva convention has alot as of the last 40 Years also consisted of treatment of citizens in prior conventions and the "legality" of undercover officers in domestic situations, so techacally we should be advising our police force to follow their suggestion as a world and UN leader, especially one that has sat in on said conversations.
"You can't film here! HIPPO! HIPPO!"
*Filmmaker is immediately savaged by a territorial hippopotamus*
@@Ozzymandius1 Hippo: I found that offensive! I am going to savage that guy!
Agent 47 would like to know your location
@@davyt0247 "Act your age man, what are you? 46? 48?" - Random smartass NPC.
We got it wrong...poor guy was just trying to warn the camera man of the hippos that were let loose.
Why did i laugh for 10 whole minutes on this
“Almost certainly wrong” is the most lawyer way to call someone on their BS I’ve ever heard
Sounds like it should be on Legal Eagle merch
@@Saezimmerman that’s not a bad idea at all
yeah make sick how he leans, its soo obvious
Business associates (BAs) of CEs are also bound by HIPAA if they have access to PHI.
@@ZFabia2010 I don’t think it really matters how he leans so long as he gives an honest legal breakdown. He still gives good breakdowns. I like how he still manages to keep it reigned in some of the time, and really, it’s his choice to express how he feels about it.
I really want to watch this but it’s a violation of my HIPAAcratic oath
You are not watching this? You're breaking his heart... Only if there's a cardiologist around to check it for him...
We got Dr. Dadjoke up in here. lol :D
~ba dum tiss~
Taking into account your username and your comment, you would legally qualify as a HIPAAcrite.
HIPPAcratic oath*
"We can not become a show your papers society" Bro i literally have a drivers license, insurance for that car, a registration for it, a passport, SS card, need i go on? Oh and i guess we shouldn't become a show your papers society UNLESS you're trying to immigrate, then you need all the papers and even then we'd rather not.
Republicans : We don't need no stinking vaccination papers - that's Nazism.
Also Republicans : You need papers to prove your immigration status and voting eligibility - show them or get arrested!
Don't forget about the I-9. You want a job? Show me your papers!
@EquivocalPhysicist
Like we need another ID.
I remember boarding a plane in late 2019 and seeing a placard while waiting in the TSA line, reminding travelers that a REAL ID would be necessary to travel domestically. I thought to myself, “The elites want to limit our ability to travel”.
Little did I know what was in the works only a few months later…..
And most of those documents are not really necessary.
@@rockdinosaur8619 It's to prevent illegal voting.
“HIPAA certified” always makes me laugh as someone who worked at a pharmacy for 13 years. It’s literally a boring slide show they made me watch once a year that I didn’t pay attention to and I just had to pass a quick test lol
I was tasked with teaching that boring little slideshow to people I supervised at the hospital. No way did I want to inflict that level of boredom on those poor people.
So...?
I interspersed the boring slideshow with slides of puns and hippo-jokes (reworked elephant jokes...I have no shame). After an introduction with a glimpse of the "humor," I gave the recipients the choice of boring and slightly shorter or corny jokes and slightly boring.
My favorite slide was the one that only said H.I.P.P.A., then faded to a cartoon of a hippo with long eyelashes, a bow, lipstick, and red polished toenails.
Oh, and the consensus? There was no consensus. It was about 50-50 regarding "Spare us anymore cheesy jokes and get us out of here" vs "More cheesy hippo jokes."
I'd often find hippo pictures, figurines, stuffed toys, and news articles left anonymously on my desk ❤.
Haha right!? Same for thing for mat certification. Basically, I was certified to put pills in butts. (Medication administration in general, minus shot injections.)
@@anitaholmes8201 oh my gosh that's brilliant
Me a Patient who need hippa.
:D, wohoo I smell a lawsuit.
Public Health, 20 years. Like, 'hang on...are we talking about HIPAA HIPAA? ' 😂
"There is an argument. It's wrong, but there is an argument." I like this. I'm going to use it at the next available opportunity.
"unfortunately we have thousands of Marjory Taylor greens out there...."
Darkest timeline confirmed
She's the Queen of the Karens.
One was scary enough, the idea of thousands is terrifying.
They're called Qaren Americans, thank you very much.
evergrande just defaulted and they're blaming the apes for the comming collapse in america. Just waiting on abed to grow that goatee
Yikes.
"Whoa, man, how did you break your arm?"
"That's a HIPAA violation!"
I think it gets worse.
First responder: "Sir, you are having an angina attack, did you take any Viagra?"
Old man: "That's a HIPAA violation, my niece is right there!"
Man dies of heart attack, family sues.
HIPAA violations are the new mattress tag removals.
"I want to apply for worker's compensation."
"Okay. Did you get injured while on the job?"
"I don't have to tell you that; that's a violation of my privacy."
"Okay, then the only compensation you're entitled to is for hours on the job. Get back to work."
New partner: "Do you have any STI/STDs I should be aware of?"
Someone with definitely nothing transmissible: "HIPAA violation!"
That sounds just like my nut-job Libertarian father in law who gets physically angry if anyone asks him anything personal.
The greatest thing is, that people who answer "this is a hipaa violation" regarding their Vax status just use a long winded way of saying "no"
So, are you vaxinated?
"you can't ask me that, that's a HIPPA violation!"
I can hear you misspelling that and I think we're done here, you can leave now.
Tobias Gorgan is antivaxxer and white supremacist
@@Luinta OK antivaxxer. Check your white privlege
@@a.i.contacttracer305 I genuinely can't tell if you're extremely confused or being purposefully dense.
no, thy are also showing how stupid they are.
"I can't tell you whether it's right or wrong. I'm just a lawyer." Near perfect summation of law in terms of moral philosophy.
Yes, many people don't seem to understand that "but it's the law" doesn't mean that something is "right".
Even ignoring for now that this is entirely subjective.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 correct. Sometime the "right" or "virtuous" action can even be illegal to pursue. The real question is where we draw our lines... Working with confidential health information I have cause to be worried about making sure I don't run afoul of HIPAA, and some people have figured out you can throw people who contend with HIPAA off by mentioning it, and then they may let you get away with something for a moment while they double check what was said to make sure whether they're in the wrong or not, and once they do that you probably can't get away with it with that person again... but unless you work with such information regularly, or have aspirations in the medical field... almost no one else should be worried about HIPAA in the slightest...
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 mostly lawyers.
You do not want to violate a hippo's personal space, they are deadly.
But I've already got one camped inside my head and _it's_ not doing any harm
:^)
I felt so stupid. At work I also function as a company medic. So everything our empoyees say to me is confidental - even that they needed my help at all. So we had a serious injury and headquaters asked me for a report. "Accoring to our german equivalent of US HIPAA Laws I can not give any information concerning the treatment and/or any medical condition of my patient".
Quoting HIPAA autmaticly makes one sound stupid, 8ecause of those morrons.
hipaas are the most dangerous creature i think, besides the nile crocodile
@@yaxye7075 Hipaas are even more deadly than elephants.
@@yaxye7075 You really missed an opportunity to say Denile Crocodile
I have had to explain it to someone this way, "HIPAA's rules just mean that your employer has to ask you for your proof of vaccination, rather than just getting them from your doctor without your permission."
Delightfully concise.
That's a good explanation. 😊
still sounds like facism to me
Then they hit you with the “I’m not giving it then” and then you have to go “Then you’re fired”
@@HazeLmao you clearly don’t know what fascism is, Brainlet.
As a lawyer who represents injured workers, bringing a claim essentially makes your medical history fair game for a fishing expedition by the insurance company to try and find a way to deny your claim. HIPAA-RGH!!!
I get why people would be surprised when that bites them, but it makes sense
Username checks out
"We need to stop America from becoming a show your papers society". So when a cop pulls me over and asks for my driver's license and registration, should I just flip him the bird and keep driving?
You can try, but as a cop friend once told me, when you get pulled over, you are technically under arrest. So, driving off will also get you a charge of evading arrest. So, instead, just flip him/her the bird and tell her/him that Madison Cawthorn said this shouldn't be a "show me your papers society". 🙂
Just give them a water bottle and say you're doing your part in keeping cops hydrated and be off on your way!
Oh grow up!
Actually you can request a lawyer on site but gov simps like you don't know that
You technically don’t have to show the cop your drivers license, but you would be held until you can be identified and your car would be impounded because the cop would say they have probably cause that you committed a crime. It would be your word vs a government employee’s, so guess who the government would believe? The fifth amendment protects you from saying anything including giving your information over. You can ask “am I being detained and am I free to go?”. If you are being detained, you can invoke the fifth amendment. If you are not, you can drive off
When celebrities/athletes refuse to tell their vaccination status, I generally assume they are unvaccinated.
When republican politicians (especially the >65 crowd) refuse to tell their vaccination status, I assume they ARE vaccinated but want to continue to pander to their voting base that they are “sticking it to the left” by not getting vaccinated. 🙄
100%
Meanwhile those athletes probably won’t mind if you ask them about their past injuries.
Politicians know what the electorate wants to hear
Yeah, that's usually how it works.
Sounds like a good rule of thumb.
"Here's Marjorie Taylor Green getting it completely wrong"
So business as usual then.
Rule of thumb if MTG explains anything, then it's wrong, or the complete opposite.
From the stable genius that coined "Jewish Space Lasers," we got this HIPAA bullsh*t.
💅🙄
It's gotten to the point that you can become a member of the GOP with the IQ of a carrot.
She got her JD from tRump univirsarry!
@@eduardomantilla2143 What a vicious and unnecessary insult! What did carrots ever do to you?
@@tigerofdoom
Carrot GANG for life! 🥕
As an employee of a covered entity under HIPAA, I had to take annual training on HIPAA rules. Every time I see someone mentioning HIPAA these days on TV or internet I cringe at the ridiculousness of their claims.
I'm not even in the medical field but I cringed when I heard people calling the vaccine the "mark of the beast" and compared a Vaccination record card to "Nazi markings."
The thing that really gets me is that I've had several conversations where I've explained HIPAA with documentation for said explanation and they just keep going. Also as a disabled person who has to sometimes seek ADA accommodations, it's flabbergasting to me how little people know about that law and how it works while the insist on invoking it. It's truly a classic case of "you can't fix stupid", especially when it's willful.
As a rule of thumb: if someone starts spouting off while spelling HIPAA as HIPPA, I already know their opinion is probably less than educated on the matter
You also know that they are not vaccinated.
And then these idiots double down and say that "doctors misspell it too."
Initially I thought that the law was named the "Health Information Privacy Protection Act" instead of the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act". Because of this, my subconscious is always trying to trick me into spelling it HIPPA instead of HIPAA (even while writing this sentence).
@@RusticRonnie Not necessarily. For example, Fox News required all of their employees to be vaccinated; however, all of the conservative talking heads know this wouldn’t sound good to their uneducated fan base, so you can assume they spout off HIPAA because they don’t want to admit that they actually ARE vaccinated.
As someone who works in healthcare and has routinely spelled HIPAA wrong for years, I'm terribly embarrassed at this moment.
This is literally the saying “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
Really, REALLY little knowledge.
That is unintentionally the most accurate use of "literally" I've ever seen on the internet.
It’s like going to a book club with only reading just the first page of a book
Actually, the problem is that these people have NO knowledge.
Dunning-Kruger effect at play here.
I was the HIPAA compliance/implementation officer at my old medical practice. Asking if someone has been vaccinated, is not a violation. Hacking and getting the info without her permission, is a violation.
When Devin looks at his desk and mutters for a moment, you know he's encountered something so ridiculous that he needed a moment to recover.
"I can't tell you whether things are right or wrong: I'm just a lawyer" is my favorite quote of the day.
@Sarah
All the while he’s telling you exactly what to think about HIPAA.
@@johnmacrae2006 really?
Where did he do that?
Please provide timestamps or quotes.
As far as I can tell he only listed facts.
@13:10
@@Jehty21
I should have said that he’s telling you exactly what to think about the entire vaccination issue; he’s clearly for the mandate.
@@johnmacrae2006 again: timestamp or quote...
For me it's so funny that I a country where your employer can ask for a drug test you cry about the question "are you vaccinated?"
Also how many other vaccines have they had? Why are they treating this one differenctly?
No, a vaccine will not cause birth defects or render them sterile should they decide to have children. Yes, the corona vaccine is safe, certainly safer than the virus it protects against. Especially given the 100 of millions of jabs that have been given so far.
It's honestly not even about health at this point. So many unvaccinated just refuse to trust the government and want to fight the laws mandating it.
If you ask me, they have good reason. America's government makes a habit of pissing on your head to just tell you it is rain.
How I’ve been introduced to 2 bosses was handing them a cup of my warm pee. I would much rather have shown them a vaccine card.
@@MB-dk6hk Hmmm, so by that logic, 6 + decades of vaccinating children before allowing them to attend public school...that rain is really just piss? Personally, NO, hell no. Did you ever attend schools that had numerous kids suffering from polio? If not, search for "polio vaccine." Maybe the 4 SCOTUS rulings were fake too, concerning vaccine mandates, or... blab with no information. An opinion, carry on M B!
These people must have forgotten the VACCINE BOOKLETS they needed to have completed before they could even attend kindergarten. 🙃
The funniest thing about all this is, I've seen people here in Australia try and claim that hipaa, hippa, hippo and various other things protects them from being asked things. Also happens people here try and plead the fifth with police. Its kind of entertaining/embarrassing.
Ammmmmericca, world citizen.
I've heard of US citizens claiming US constitutional rights in other countries (usually to the laughter of the local authorities), but this is a new one on me. Maybe Aussies watch too many US cop shows ?
I work for a health insurance company, every time a politician says HIPAA I want to bang my head on my desk. I booked mark the CDC's page on HIPAA in case somebody ever tries to pull it with me.
I actually had to push back on someone using HIPAA as an excuse, but also ended it with , "but I'll leave that up to the lawyers.". Glad to see a lawyer breaking it down!
What I find funny is how those same people react as tourists. HIPAA is US only, so they often assume that Canada and UK sells their info on the black market, while they are protected by PIPEDA and GDPR respectively.
@@Maninawig The UK is no longer covered by GDPR but I get your point
@@nathanmckenzie904 You are very much wrong about that. They haven't departed from it yet. UK is currently making plans for their own plan but they are still covered under GDPR to this day.
@@anteshell I thought GDPR covered EU countries. Is this one of those holdover rules?
@@anteshell looked it up, they have a cut and paste version of GDPR that the EU will comply with.
Thank you forbthe correction
My dad helped write the HIPAA laws. It was a big part of his life when I was a kid. I’m now a medical professional. I’ve never seen him so angry as when I tell him about all the weird ways people try to invoke HIPAA… especially when they call it HIPPA.
Intelligent people, generally, become frustrated with ignorance. My mummy, who has a photographic memory, becomes frustrated with me because I don't have a photographic memory; gee go figure. She calms down after I explain most people don't have that ability. Brilliant & very intelligent humans are in their own world & thoughts. Interesting, to read your father helped out with the law. Stay safe. v
I work for a hospital in the IT department, I’m not an expert, but have some sense what constitutes a HIPAA violation. Because of the time and care we put into protecting PHI and complying with HIPAA, it irritates me when people talk unintelligently about what it is.
I took a radiology certification class that i didn't end up pursuing, and that little bit of HIPAA that i learned/remember is enough to know that MTG and other's takes on HIPAA is laughable and terribly ignorant
oooh the 'my dad is better than your dad"
I mean in your case he probably is. After all, his kid isn’t leaving weird, contextually inappropriate troll messages on a 6 month old post. 😉
I love how you added the point you need papers to send your kid to school I feel like people forget the fact that you have to get certain vaccines and other healthcare things to put your kid through school
13:15 "It would be illegal to mandate a vaccine because doing so requires the government to find out who has been vaccinated". Here in Australia ALL vaccinations provided have to be recorded in a federal government database called the Australian Immunisation Register. And it's from this database that we are able to download our own proof of vaccinations.
As someone that had to learn HIPAA to do my job, I did a choking laugh the first time I heard someone say, "But HIPAA protects me from disclosing vaccine information." Um no, that's not the way that works.
I had someone in the twitterverse basically argue this same point with me. They didnt take my word for it so I screen grabbed the definition of hipaa to the feed. Silence. Of course.
@@joeymessantonio4356 The issue there is the keyboard commandos in Twitterverse think they are experts in everything because someone else told them without any factual information to prove it.
@@GeminiKnight76 The world would be a different place if any effort had been made to teach adults how to verify information on the internet once we started using it in everyday life. Get a computer or smartphone, and you have to pass a test for the internet to work. It's only been like the last 20 years, schools started teaching kids how to verify their sources when doing research projects. Everyone basically 35-40 + has no idea what they're doing. Bonsai kittens, Nigerian princes, pyramid scheme retooled as "multi-level marketing", fake accounts, disinformation, and misinformation, and those poor bastards never learned how to tell what was real and what wasn't. How to look up information to see if it was true.
@@Nevertoleave Not everyone over the age of 35 is internet incompetent. I'm 45 and I know how to do searches for reliable sources that are not Twitter or any other social media.
HIPAA is only there to make sure the companies you give that info don't go giving it out to others without harsh penalties or fines. HIPAA does not prevent a place from requesting information of a medical nature from you. These people are getting that confused which is silly. That being said there is valid reason to be concerned about normalizing having to give more of yourself to a company and even the core of the issue is that the slope is very slippery when it comes to sharing anything that could be looked down upon. If you normalize handing over medical records to employers then you may get discriminated against for things like insurance where you have conditions and the company does not want to cover you. The HIPAA thing is a joke , but the concern still is not.
As a therapist who’s done LOTS of work with Medicaid patients, I can’t help but lose my marbles whenever I hear someone tell a non medical professional that they’re violating HIPAA… it’s literally impossible to do that 😳
I'm becoming a therapist and currently work in a direct patient care rope at a behavioral health facility and yup to everything you just said lol.
It just boils down to the fact that people are stupid, and the people who maintain most of the power have a vested interest in keeping them that way.
Given how many people seem to be going crazy about this, you may have a lot of new therapist patients.
As a former behavioral therapist... same. Drives me nuts. >_>
as someone who just barely paid attention at school am baffeled how many grown people still have so many confusing interpretations on theier rights & obligations.
While I always find your videos interesting, this one stood out. I never considered how civilians interact with HIPAA vs my military experience. HIPAA is a large part of my job as a supervisor, always weighing personnel decisions concerning health issues on the legality of what I can ask for and what can be decided on. For instance, military member says he has a medical appointment and thus can not be at work as those are mandatory in the military. I can not ask the military doctor what he is being seen for, but I can call and check to make sure the appointment is legit if I have reason to think the member is skipping out of work. No simple calling in sick in the military. So, its pretty funny to see it being brought to the attention of the public in such a bizarre way.
Of course, immunizations are also mandatory in the military, a simple check box and get back to work. Hell, we even do immunizations in entire groups. So, the fight over immunizations is also bizarre and hilarious to me.
Me 2. Fighting over vaccinations is bizarre. v
I remember going through basic training in the '90s... we were all marched as a group to a small building where we waited outside and in a line were filled through and given a shot. We didn't get to object, we didn't even get told where we were going until we got there.
@@Amradorn hell, can you imagine a recruit trying to object given what's going on today...lol I'd pay to watch that go down.
They're all concerned about a person's right to medical privacy when it comes to vaccinations but seem to recklessly disregard it when it comes to reproductive health.
this comment is so underrated!!
Thats an icy cold burn and i love it
Nailed it!
So you're saying that murdering someone should be protected? The Constitution, not HIPAA, protect individuals from disclosing private information. While there are certainly times an individual can be excluded from some things a vaccine that requires four shots and counting isn't exactly codified in the law. Some of us remember the same attempts of pushing the Anthrax vaccine. Then there was H1N1. Now we are repeating the same exercise in futility that even the (P)resident admitted it was not legal. Science, as it were, isn't easily defined in law.
As for abortions, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness isn't limited to those who can vote, in fact it is precisely for those who are vulnerable, also known as, unborn children.
You’re right it’s your medical right to keep your information about what you do with your reproductive life is your business since it’s a legal practice in healthcare. Our side isn’t concerned with HIPAA, but the practice itself.
I want to know what the “HEPA law” is because HEPA is a filtration system.😂
What kind of filtration system?
@@SaraphDarklaw A HEPA filter is a “high-efficiency particulate air” filter. We have them on our vacuums and air circulation systems in hospitals. They’re just the most effective filters from keeping particles out of the air.
😹
Sounds like an OSHA thing, for very dusty work environments.
@@SaraphDarklaw asking that is a HEPA violation
I don't understand how professional athletes suddenly want "medical privacy" since pretty much everything about their bodies is meticulously documented on a regular basis
@Rap Moreno
I would want as much privacy as possible.
It's more about avoiding getting injected with an experimental drug whose side effects can destroy their ability to perform their sport than "medical privacy". But keep pretending heart inflammation, blood clots, and who knows what else isn't a debilitating risk factor.
@@elgatofelix8917 so if those are the reasons why they don't want to be vaccinated why even bring HIPAA into it?
Why not say "I don't want to be vaccinated"?
Maybe all the steroids already destroyed their balls?
@@elgatofelix8917
Six months of three rounds of clinical trials
First non-trial vaccines have been administered for nearly a year
We get similar vaccines for other coronaviruses like the flu every year and have been for decades
600,000 dead Americans
The reactions you're talking about have numbers in the double digits
@@selfloathinggameing exactly the type of nonsense spouted by somebody who thinks playing Russian Roulette is a safe bet because only one bullet is loaded into the chamber. Yeah you're "smart"
My health clinic giving my medical information to my mother despite the fact they aren't allowed to share my medical information without getting my permission when she isn't even listed as an emergency contact (and I'm an adult) is more of a violation then someone asking if I have my vaccines.
14:18 "HIPAA doesn't apply when YOU are talking about YOUR OWN health". Perfection.
I have actually had a real HIPAA violation in my life when my dentist refused to provide my dental records so I could give them to my new dentist. (She had performed some negligently bad work on a tooth so I wasn't just like moving or something.) Anyway, I filed a complaint with the federal department of Health and Human Services, I think it was. It took them 3 months to decide to investigate and another 3 months to investigate, but they did and I won. Indio, she able to claim ignorance and got put on probation with no real consequences, but it was an interesting experience. She had refused to provide them to me, refused to provide them at my new dentist's request, refused the insurance company's request, and even refused when I came with a police officer as a civil standby to get them at the insurance company's recommendation.
That’s interesting though. Usually people think of HIPAA as releasing information that shouldn’t be. I hadn’t thought about refusing to release information you’re required to.
@@nathanlamberth7631 yeah. I wondered if she was committing some kind of insurance fraud although I wasn't able to figure out any in my case. I had a friend in dental hygiene school and we actually compared all of the dental records with my insurance records and what was actually visible in my mouth. After HHS found in my favor, she actually tried calling the police to help block giving me the records, but they wouldn't touch it. I don't know what was going on, but it was definitely shady and definitely weird.
Weird! The only thing I can imagine is if she did something completely wrong and didn't tell you, so the records were correct but didn't want you to get them?
For example, I found out 10yrs later that I had oral surgery to remove the wrong teeth when I was 15. Like the orders were correct, the records were correct, but the teeth removed weren't the ones that should have been (upper jaw vs lower).
Best comment, "Don't ask me about what's right or wrong, I'm a lawyer." 😂😂😂
Honestly yeah. I think that's a sign of a good lawyer, when they are not willing to talk about the morality of what they do. Because the law dousnt care about morality. It only cares about the law.
morality is societies job to split hairs over. a lawyers job is to split hairs over the verbiage of whatever words were written into some bs claimed to be the law.
@@adamlivesay1973 correction, it abt Money. If u gave money to the guy in the video, he would also favor u.
Imma tell my employer to use this video for our HIPAA training from now on (along with, probably, a small mountain of supplementary training). I work in information systems with medical systems (occasionally) so we get training every year. Watching this video….it’s craaaazy how wrong folks can get it. I never felt it was terribly complex?
It’s hysterical this had to be explained, still an interesting watch. It is too bad that many will choose to disbelieve any facts or interpretations, since it may go against their personal beliefs. Keep up the good videos please.
I don't think it's their personal beliefs as much as it is their personal desires.. ;)
A patient recently told us that sending him text reminders of his appointments is a HIPAA violation.
The things people come up with..
Edit to add: I can't speak for other places, but you sign paperwork regarding this at the initial consultation with my company. It's also asked at registration. 100% doing it to be a pain.
Those texts... are hugely useful and convinient. Some people are just on a quest to complain.
this is why science education is important...
@@TehMomo_ ill do you one better: this is why _education_ as a whole is important
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I mean, I could see the argument if it was done without consent or without the appropriate privacy disclosure. My understanding is that there are established guidelines for secure transmission of information and SMS/MMS is by no means secure. But this is all stuff the patient agrees/consents to when they (possibly blindly) sign all the intake papers.
To be fair, MTG is quite literally paid to loudly misunderstand things, so no real surprises there.
yeah, kinda like AOC
Why are you hating on Magic: The Gathering
I'm pretty sure she'd loudly misunderstand things for free.
@@itkojecockot man AOC is doing a terrible job them, she tends to be correct on most of the issues she brings up.
But yes MTG is the Republican version of AOC… which is to say “take something functional and make a shit show version which isn’t based in reality”.
Republicans tend to hate her because she keeps embarrassing their most “promising” members like Ted Cruz”.
@@LividImp If you're good at something, never do it for free.
Thank you for posting this. As a Healthcare Compliance Professional, it is nice to have someone in the public eye comment to correct these people.
Medical coding professional here for 23 years, with mandatory HIPAA training yearly. Thank you for clarifying-- though I'm afraid the people who really need to see this won't.
"Help I'm Pedantically Producing Acronyms!" Really made my day 😂
*Pronouncing
HIPAA is 1 P and 2 A's
@@rzawistowski33 Yes, that was the point. It's in the video, at 4:07 with the actual HIPAA acronym above it, in order to demonstrate exactly what you just said.
@@yf-n7710 yeah, I know. I was mocking this commenter who clearly spelt it wrong with their acronym
@@LisaBeergutHolst 4:07 Producing*
I think we should see this a bonding moment. Even if you’re rich and famous enough to get the best lawyers in the world, you’ll probably still get your legal advice from some idiot on Twitter.
the lawyer who named that amendment the hitech act was definitely patting themselves on the back.
Long time viewer here and I can really appreciate the new second camera angle + having it on a slider to create movement in the shot. Idk how many people notice those small production details, but I sure did.
Great analysis and explanation as always 👍
"Hippa" is the Finnish word for the game of tag but "Help I'm pedantically Producing Acronyms" sound like a fun game too
Funny thing is, an old game called Acrophobia was pretty much that
Is NAACP an acronym or an initialism since we typically say N double A CP
We Anglophobes, do love our acronyms. But still that's fighting talk, and O wouldn't start a puukkohippa over HIPPA with the heavily-armed American populace.
Every time someone says they don't think the government should have any conditions on their personal health choices in the workplace, I ask them if they'd have a problem with a pilot high on meth flying them on their next trip. That usually shuts em up.
💯👍 or their surgeon being high during surgery, that should be fun 🤣
Well I'd take meth over heroin for my pilots
Honestly they shouldn’t have, it should be a rule put in place but the company itself. Like Southwest Airlines or Volaris, it should be up to them how much experience a pilot has before he can fly, or what condition the pilot must he to fly. Because at the end of the day, if people are unsatisfied with their flight, they can choose to not go. Profits will suffer because of their poor choice making, and they will either improve flying or health conditions, or go bankrupt. And since your on the topic of pilots and airplanes, didn’t Southwest Airlines listen to the governances mandates that their employee must vaccinate, and what happened? Canceled or extremely delayed flights? And the Southwest said it was because of weather or turbulence? Lying to the public for following a government mandate because their pilots and employees walked out.
@@HarpaxA A surgeon is not a very good comparison to the top comment. A surgeon, when he walks in to perform surgery on somebody, their will always be liability. If he goes in under the influence or high, he is liable for you. And you would be able to sue him because of that. But those rules wouldn’t need to be put there by the government, the company itself could have installed them.
It would depend on if it's his first flight of the day or his 10th flight of the day.
THANK YOU!!! I work in the mental health field. Very very very few people actually understand HIPAA. People throw it around all the time. Incorrectly. This is a must watch! Great video! 👍🏼
Something I think myself and many others need is a crash course on labor laws in the US (and lack of them compared to other countries). When started talking about at-will employment, I know that is based by each state. So many of us work but have no idea what are our rights when it comes to being laid-off V fired and how we can strike, and the laws surrounding protection around strikers (if any).
The labour laws in the US are practically 3rd world compared to most European countries
Most of the people who don't understand HIPAA spell it "HIPPA", so that's a nice indicator.
HIPAAron Rodgers
HIPPO rights as it were.
The people who use celebrities as a source of information are also the people who tell you they do their own research
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think there are several overlapping circles there.
Of course, because celebrities are experts in everything. That's why they get paid so much money. /End sarcasm
I tried to get my Gynecologist to violate HIPAA once!!!!! She shut that shit down immediately!!! I was trying to ask her for information about my sister, who was having an ovarian cist. She said she couldn’t tell me and to go ask my sister lol
As a doctor (anaesthetist), in Canada, hospital workers had to be vaccinated under provincial mandates, people who are health practitioners claimed HIPAA. Isolations (some senior practitioners), but my health authority that hires approximately 150,000 people, only four were fief, and thought the health authority would hire them back, it was a pulmonologist, 2 RNs and a PA (physician’s assistant) and it was easy to hire new ones, everyone was practicing for five days years or less, but one was scrub nurse for 15 years. We were lucky not to experience a significant losses, compared to other provinces and was not hard to hire other employees to replace them and hire more workers, to help prevent burnout. We lucked out!
Finally!! I work in Health Insurance - put down your torches and pitchforks, please - and it is nice that someone covered this because all the HIPAA videos make me laugh...
It's both sad and laughable. They want to throw out the claim but likely have no idea what it actually means
I'm still waiting for a mini Karen to cry about how her granny violated HIPAA by complaining about her rhumatoïde arthritis
My facility has been dealing with this also.
@@claratalbot7613 Kinda like "Socialism" economic policy or most anything else.
Me too. I’m a paralegal and those comments make me laugh.
Oh hey! I'm in the video around 1 minute. Yeah I got Hippa mixed up with the hippocratic oath and was still wrong! I loved having this sent to me by my friend. Thanks for covering the topic since yeah, there's a lot of uninformed people on twitter (me included) that talk about random shit we don't know about!
did you see the part where he said it’s HIPAA not HIPPA? or are you doing this by accident? Lol
@@sosayweall_jpg Did you see the part where he said he's 1 minute into the video? or are you doing this by accident? Lol
sorry, I couldn't resist
@@sosayweall_jpg I said that ironically since it's how I spelt it then lol
Kudos for reacting within reason and accepting your mistake. Wish there were more people like this
@@whoawtf7419 I laugh at it, being wrong is normal + I made a mistake, no reason to die on the hill, to be quite frank that photo was taken a few months ago and I rarely go on twitter so much anymore since I dislike all the politics.
As a healthcare and compliance attorney, I cannot truly express how triggering the intro of this video is. The grossly widespread misunderstanding of HIPAA is giving me ulcers. You explained it perfectly. I am 100% forwarding this video to everyone who feels compelled to ask me whether they can sue “for a violation of their HIPAA rights.” Also, have you ever considered creating employee/employer trainings on this? I’ve reviewed so many HIPAA trainings for clients, and more often than not they’re terrible. This video broke this concept down so succinctly, it would be a great basis for a training!
I did IT support for some NYC hospitals and it was made very clear there are alerts on celebrity charts, and accessing any of them will immediately get you fired
"thousands of Marjorie Taylor Greenes" sounds like a literal circle of hell
As a Republican, I can tell you that most reasonable Republicans think she's just awful as well. I'm just waiting for her to legally change her name to Karen
I had to sit down for a moment after hearing that. The mental visual gave me the vapors.
Ironically enough having thousands of Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers' running around fighting against vaccine mandates _is_ like Nazi Germany (where they rolled back previously existing vaccine mandates).
@@dynamicworlds1 Well that's because the right is great at projecting what they're doing onto others.
@@dynamicworlds1 They also forced a demonized minority to undergo experimental medical treatments.
Why i love this channel and feel I can trust him as a reliable source of information:
"I can't tell you whether things are right or wrong, I'm just a lawyer. But, I'm a lawyer, i can tell you whether their legal or not."
The most honest thing I've ever heard a lawyer say.
Never trust a lawyer who makes his living making RUclips videos about his opinions on law.
@@markgprobably What about one who is an Adjunct Professor Of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a trial lawyer with his own firm?
They're*
@@markgprobably mans is making this to educate the public not make a living lolol
Could you do a video on gerrymandering districts and if/how they it can be challenged in court? I would love to know more on that topic!
America needs hippo laws. Where loads of hippos are released into america. Angry hippos. Each hippo gets pushed out a plane with a kick
I've worked in healthcare for over 30 years now, and I keep wanting to make these people read the training materials and take the annual quiz before they ever say "HIPAA" again. I could get reprimanded or fired if I don't pass the annual HIPAA training, but apparently they can spout all sorts of nonsense with a straight face.
I'd be fine if they just wanted to cite a patient's right to privacy, but nooooo. They have to indulge in this verbal cosplay.
Only 10 years here, and yeah...
@Oracle Mun
So do patients have privacy rights?
@@johnmacrae2006
HIPAA prevents healthcare providers, AND ONLY HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, from releasing healthcare information with any identifying information. No one but the organization(s) that provide those health services needs to abide by HIPAA.
Patients have the right to refuse to release vaccination records, legally, but 3rd parties (like employers) are free to punish them for doing so. As those parties are under no HIPAA obligations.
@@johnmacrae2006 Under a hospital's by-laws, yes. Under professional codes of ethics, yes. I can't really comment on the specifics of any state or federal laws, but I do know that a patient's medical records can be released to a parent/guardian (in cases where the patient is a minor or otherwise unable to participate in their medical care/decisions), and that doesn't usually require anything beyond identification of the parent/guardian.
As someone with a degree in administrative medical office management: first, flashbacks to my school years throughout this whole video. Second it is hilarious how much people like to cling to hipaa as if it applies in every situation to everyone when if that were the case asking for things like allergy information or even just "are you sick?" Would be highly illegal.
Some guy had a heart attack, I had to let him die because I didn't want to violate his HIPAA by giving him CPR. Shoot, I just broke the law by telling that story!
I did IT work in healthcare for about a decade. I joke HIPAA is engraved on my soul.
@@vogelaccount5902 In fairness it really FEELS like "privacy" should be in there somewhere.
"How are you?" *gets cuffed and read Miranda rights*
@@starlady98 I am still in IT in healthcare. lol. sadly, medical professional violate HIPAA on a daily basis.
I had a friend who was watching a person who was dying (palliative care), and she posted on Facebook “please pray for this [age] [ethnicity] [gender], that she may pass peacefully.” I texted her “TAKE THAT DOWN, THAT IS A HIPAA VIOLATION!” She argued it’s not, to which I replied “you gave her age, ethnicity, and gender, yes it is!”
It's pretty sad that a friend of mine is a nurse and thinks an employer can't ask because it violates HIPAA
Does this also mean Joe Rogan might not be a good source of medical knowledge? That's unpossible.
Someone call GB
His doctor might be tho
That’s crazy
Joe Rogan may not be a good source for medical knowledge, but he IS the source for all mass produced HGH. They get it by taking him down to the squeezing room.
And his quack doctors
things that *are* HIPAA violations:
finding a patient on facebook or texting them from your private phone regarding a non-healthcare matter
things that arent HIPAA violations
asking for proof of vaccination at a private company's front door
I work at a children’s hospital. I’ve had parents reach out to me over social media to ask about hospital stuff. Does hipaa go into that?
@@rachelcoates9041 kinda. HIPAA requires that medical facilities keep the information secure. Is Facebook secure?
@@Gothicsilencer no. I never have answered the parents. They aren’t asking me about anything medical, just if the hospital is busy or to gossip about the staff. I don’t answer, of course. I just think it’s weird.
@@rachelcoates9041 seeing as the information was accessed by patients and not staff, it isnt a hipaa violation i would guess, but it is still an invasion of your privacy as a medical care provider. hipaa doesnt protect providers' information, it protects patients' private health info and personally identifiable info
I worked in allied health for 20+ years. HIPAA is ALL about healthcare people not revealing your private information to other people. I.e. I can tell my husband that "man, that heart attack we had to deal with today was horrid", but I can't tell him anything about the patient from their name, race, age - ANYTHING identifying. And it was often VERY tough, because I worked where I lived and friends of our family often came into the multi-doctor practice where I worked.
Also, there are similar rules in education, which led to some real fun when I discovered some damning information on someone I knew personally. Man, that was rough (and yes, I went to my boss about it immediately and got debriefed.)
"How are you?"
"That's a HIPAA violation!"
I'm a software developer whose made various HR and medical software apps over the years, and HIPAA tends to have way more impact on developers and IT in terms of how the software needs to be written, to what levels of encryption and security, and what sort of access logs need to be recorded for auditing purposes. From what I've seen, it's mostly concerned with the "middle men" and third parties to ensure no more information than is needed for a given context is shared
Yep, software development and cyber security are probably hit harder by HIPAA and HITECH than doctors are.
Got my bachelors in programming and now do cyber security so I've seen it from both ends.
It's fun explaining to nurses that no, they can't send the really cool/gnarly x-ray to their girlfriends because it has a patient's name and PII on it for the thousandth time... not.
I'd be very interested in learning what kinds of requirements there are for that, as a fellow software dev
Software engineer and worked in pharmacy for 13 years, it has to do with privacy in general. If a person stands too close to you while I’m talking about your medical information, is a violation. If i start looking up peoples medical information at work... just because... it’s a violation.
@@Jcewazhere Can't the nurses just ask the patient for permission to take a photo of the Xray that doesn't show their name on it? I know I have had nurses ask me similar questions about photos in medical settings. Since I give them permission for it, then it shouldn't be a HIPAA violation.
As for why I get asked it a lot, I have a very cute service dog that most nurses love. I usually say yes since I don't care if people know that I was at a specific office and that's the only information that can come from the photo. Which is usually information that I already freely share with other people anyway
That’s what google told me too, nailed it
Imagine being wheeled into the Emergency in obvious pain and the MO asks what's wrong so patient said "You can't ask me my medical history, I am protected by HIPAA!"
Don't joke, I had a massage client do it.
The way you transition into yours sponsor ads is awesome.
No matter if it is legal or not: KARENS ARE GONNA KAREN.
The delivery on, “That doesn’t even make sense,” is the funniest thing ever.
"It's wrong, but there is an argument"
If I didn't already know you were a lawyer, that's all I'd need to hear
I pity anybody who takes this channel seriously for legal advice and analysis. Just one look at this clown's video history shows it's nothing political propaganda masquerading as entertainment.
@@elgatofelix8917 one question:
Is political propaganda only bad if it doesn't correlate with your views?
I mean Fox News is a TV channel that doesn't do anything but political propaganda. Do you also resent that?
@@Jehty21 of course I resent that. Fox is no better than CNN. Way to show how hopelessly stuck in your echo chamber you are that you automatically assume anybody who expresses a dissenting opinion from your precious establishment is a Fox "news" viewer.
What next? You'll accuse me of supporting a VAX pusher like Trump? 😅😅😅
@@elgatofelix8917 it's just that all the comments you wrote under this video could be 1:1 from Fox News.
So where did you get your talking points if not from Fox?
@@Jehty21 lol what a load of BS. Here's a thought: maybe I actually think for myself and come to my own conclusions based on independent observations and personal experience. I know that's unfathomable for NPCs like you who let propagandists like LegalWeasel tell you what to think.
In short, HIPAA is basically client-attorney privelage, but with you and your doctor and medical providers/overseers. People can't call your doctor and demand to know what you saw them for, and nor can the Doctor run to the media to publicly humiliate you with what they found in an exam, for to examples.
“You say that word, but I don’t think you know what it means.”
Any time someone says "you can't ask that, that is a HIPAA violation" what they are really saying is "I don't want to tell you, but I'm going to make up some excuse that makes you sound like the bad guy for asking me even though I am the person being stubborn."
Had someone ranting about there "friend's" inability to get a religious exemption for the same thing. My answer, if they had given a shit, and not been a complete flipping nutcase about *everything* for the last 5 years, would have been, "Pulling a deeply held belief about a specific vaccine out of your ass, which your 'church' never had until now, and which you contradicted over and over again by stating that you specifically planned to use this excuse to not get a vaccination, and not because you actually appose vaccines, etc., does not qualify you, your friend, or any other random idiot, for a flipping exemption. And, this is the case despite how much you misquote scripture, or try to claim that your local church supports you, as a means of 'proving it'."
But, nope, the fact that many people do somehow manage to get them, while others, on "both sides" of the political fence try, but fail to, for all sorts of insane BS, kind of contradicts the "theory" that this is some conspiracy, directed specifically at flipping conservatives who get their medical advice from Joe Rogan, or their not-actually-a-doctor chiropractor. Or, at least it bloody shouldn't. But.. this is mass hysteria on a level of Europe during the Black Plague, and, just like then, they are looking for their modern version of, "Its all caused by witches and black cats", instead of being "preventable" with basic flipping hygiene.
Sigh...
As someone who works with HIPAA every single working day of my life, it’s nice to finally see someone explaining correctly how it works and not using it as an excuse to be a butthole.
Proctologist
Well done Sir.
Very impressed.
What's super messed up is that insurance companies can use "middle men" type companies to process claims like Multiplan. I don't like that I don't know where my client's info goes if they have multiplan. Insurances are weird.
As someone who works in the health insurance industry, I find it both sad and alarming how many people - particularly those IN MEDICINE - misquote and hide behind this group of laws.
It's just another reminder that no group of humans in any occupation: Cops, legislators, astronauts, teachers, doctors, managers... are all going to be free of idiots. Some percentage of people will have bumbled their way into the ranks of the successfully employed.
And usually those people are the loudest
@@imightbebiased9311 I mean, a former friend of mine who was a dang PA is anti vaxx because “religion” and got fired for it…yeah, I have no sympathy whatsoever for that.
@@jenniferhiemstra5228 that’s because people don’t understand the religious protections either. While your employer must make reasonable accommodations, they can let you go if the requirements prevent you from doing a job. If my religion says I can’t wear any safety gear, you’d better believe I can get termed from a construction site.
@@Rhewin Oh I’m with you. Vaccines have nothing at all to do with religious practices anyway and it’s maddening that that’s where we are right now…
I work at a medical device company, so I'm required to retake HIPAA training on an annual basis even though I don't handle PHI in any part of my job. When people use HIPAA as a sort of trump-card against requirements like vaccinations makes my eyes roll back into my skull.
It’s just another moving of the goalposts to bolster the antivax mentality. “Protecting HIPAA” sounds more logical and better informed than “I don’t wanna! 😫”
You just informed us that you have a medical condition that makes your eyes roll back when hearing misinformation. You just violated your HIPPA ⬅️ rights
You said “trump”. Lol
Lol a co-worker had a seizure at work the other day. I told a different co-worker "Hey don't go over to that part of the building, so-n-so had a seizure and the paramedics are there." And my boss (a Karen) pulled me in her office and chewed me out claiming that i violated his HIPPA rights and that he could sue me. She was trying to scare me by saying "you are in big trouble". I was like. Cool, I'll need time off to prep for the trial.
OBJECTION!!
"You mean it's not 'Hippo?"
Lololol
I love how so many of them call it "HIPPA" instead of "HIPAA". I was a pharmacy technician starting in 1998 and had to get training in HIPAA. So this past year has been pretty hilarious.
It's the one and only thing about all of the crazy that makes some amount of sense. By usual English rules, HIPPA would be the correct spelling for the way people generally pronounce the acronym. Of course, acronyms have no requirement to follow English spelling rules (such as they are)...
Same here. I had to take a class on HIPAA when I interned at Epic Systems
You know it's going to be an idiotic take whenever you see HIPPA
Same. I was an IT tech at a medical facility in 2000 and had to get trained on HIPAA laws. First time I heard someone use this excuse I was like, you LITERALLY have no idea what you are talking about here. Basically if you are not working in medicine or health care, HIPAA doesn't apply to you. Joe schmuck can go through your trash and find your medication and its NOT a HIPAA violation. Maybe a bunch of other violations and laws, but not HIPAA.
Worked for a health insurance company... had yearly trainings about what is and isn't a HIPAA violation. The last two years have been a continuous eye-roll for me.
jeesh, Typhoid Mary would be an alt-right hero today.
Idk she was an immigrant...
@@LostButBroken Yes, but they LOVE using immigrants as props for their BS.
True but she was the right colored immigrant. Irish.
No, they would hate the story "forced female protagonist", "total Mary Sue" and "forced diversity".
@@LostButBroken So is Trump's wife, but she is a hero to many of them.
Okay, wanted to clarify how HIPAA relates to your employer. HIPAA bars your employer from accessing your medical records directly from covered entities without your permission. It doesn't stop them from asking you for them, permission to access them, or even making disclosure a condition for returning to work and/or maintaining employment. That's going to be covered by labor laws. With that said, there are legitimate reasons an employer may need to see your medical records, especially if the condition you were being treated for prevented you from working (like having certain diseases while working a food preparation job) or if they need those records to help file a workman's comp claim. And they might even require you to see a company doctor (or more likely nurse practitioner) to evaluate if and should you return back to work. (There's probably a waver built into your employment contract, but the Occupation Health rep will also have a waver, just to cover their butts.)
Very simply put like this. You have your right to keep your health status confidential. But others also have the right to refuse service from you if you do.
As someone who used to volunteer at a hospital a few years back, hearing people throw around the term "HIPAA" so incorrectly and with such confidence is bewildering. Feels like an episode of the twilight zone.
Stupidity is often accompanied by a large volume of confidence. If they were not so stupid they would be less confident.
@@FoolOfATuque could I frame your words, and displayed everywhere ? 🤣
Ironic. I was an exchange student in the US back in 2008, and towards the end of the year I was pulled from class and held in GUARANTEE until my parents could fax my vaccine certificates from my home country 😅 No one was yelling nazi germany and HIPAA violations back then in the conservative area I lived in 🤭
US holding foreigners against their will until verification?
NO WAY
[Sarcasm]
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Ironically, I don't think that it was a HIPAA violation since the entity giving out the information and thus probably not bound by US laws even if it had been done without your consent. It's not illegal for anyone request it as far as I know.
@@DocPetron of course it wasn’t a violation of anything. What I meant is that it’s ironic how people are suddenly so upset about getting asked about their vaccine statuses even though that has been going on for ages 🤷♀️
Is guarantee supposed to be quarantine?
@@HSMfanatic17 yes. I quarantine you that you’re correct
My vacuum cleaner's HEPA filter isn't allowed to talk about my vaccines.
employee: (coughs up blood)
manager: "are you alright?"
nearby fbi agent: (loads shotgun)