The issue of medical confidentiality has once again been thrust into the headlines by an alleged breach of confidentiality committed by an employee at one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains. In early June 2018 a New York man filed suit against CVS, alleging that an employee at the chain’s local outlet had leaked his secret about Viagra use to the man’s wife.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 sets rules about what, if any, of our personal health information can be shared by health care insurers and medical service providers, including pharmacies. Generally speaking, a patient can decide if and with whom his or her data can be shared.
In this case, a Long Island man claimed that an employee at his local CVS retailer told the man’s wife that his health insurer had declined to pay for the man’s Viagra prescription. The man said that he had previously made arrangements to pay for the drug out of his own pocket and that the CVS employee had no right, in any case, to discuss his Viagra use with his wife.
The suit points up the very delicate subject of medical confidentiality and the rules that protect us from invasions of privacy on such matters.
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