lamentforicarus@kbin.socialtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Medical Debt cannot be sent to collections
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1 year agoThis is absolutely false information. Third party business associates are considered covered entities under the Privacy Rule. The hospital signs a contract with a collection agency and thus that business can now access your health information as an institute of the hospital. You don’t need to sign away your rights if it is considered an essential activity of the hospital, which billing and payments are. Also, it’s HIPAA.
And you aren’t being treated anywhere without signing a privacy HIPAA notice.
I disagree that carrying a child to term is low effort. It absolutely wrecks a woman’s body. Really what you should respond with is, “I didn’t ask to be here. I didn’t consent to being born.”