Class KF1-9827 - Law of the United States Federal law. Common and collective state law
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- KF27.F377.1 - Workplace Discrimination
Patricia Fobair LCSW, MPH
- When you do get back to work, you may notice many changes in the way your employer and co-workers treat you. Some of these changes may be subtle, some may be blatant. Ignorance about cancer is what gives rise to the myths, misconceptions, and prejudices that still prevail today.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/Survivor/work.html
Link added 2008-05-25;
- KF1215.F105.1 - HMO Letter
John Fetto, JD
- Please state the basis for your denial of this procedure in writing to me, and specially point out the language in my insurance contract upon which you bases your denial
http://www.cancerlynx.com/hmoletter.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2006-11-17
- KF1215.G113.1 - Insurance Adjuster Letter
Karen Gann and John Fetto, JD
- My onco-doc recently received a Rehab form from my private disability company to fill out about me. How long could I sit, stand lift, how much weight, etc., etc. He was furious, and had his nurse me wondering what part of permanently disabled do these people not understand.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/adjuster.html
Link added 2006-04-23; reviewed 2006-11-17
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KF3650.M156.1 - Social Security Disability Delays
Mick Mickler
- Deserving patients who should file for Social Security Disability are likely to experience long delays, major roadblocks and possible denial of their disability claim because of not knowing how the system works
http://www.cancerlynx.com/delay.html
Link added 2006-07-30; reviewed 2006-11-17
- KF3827.B51.1 - Your Medical Records
David Bradley with Contributors - Melanie
Aguillard Kathleen Allen, Alexandra Andrews, David Bradley, Sandy Caverly, Sammy De Roos,
John Fetto, Allan Grossman, Merry Holley, Judy Kean-Lunsford, Victoria Kozak, Gayla Lacatena, Judy Nielsen, Stephanie Payne, Karolen Paularena, Patricia
Smith, Glenda Strieter, Jeanne Turner, Sheila Werner, and Chris Wong
- Our best, most carefully considered advice to patients, healthier and otherwise? Read your own charts,
and ask questions there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/records.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2006-11-17
- KF3827.D248.1 - How to Correct Your Medical Records
Caro Douglass and M.J. McKeown, MD
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How do you go about disputing something in your medical record that is incorrect. And it is incorrect not because of transcription error, but because the doctor put down some things that are incorrect?
http://www.cancerlynx.com/correctrecord.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2006-11-17
- KF3827.M159.1 - Your Medical Records. How Correct? How Important? How Damaging?
M.J. McKeown, MD, FACOG, FACS
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It begins with our first breath as we receive our APGAR score indicating how healthy we are when we are born. It ends when someone assigns us a diagnosis as we breathe our last...
http://www.cancerlynx.com/medicalrecord.html
Link added 2006-08-11; reviewed 2006-11-17
- KF3827.R194.1 - Patient Rights to Medical Records
Roy Rada, MD, PhD
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Federal Regulation has taken hold which mandates patient access to medical records. The Regulation is called the Privacy Rule health care providers need to comply with the Rule. The Rule emphasizes that patients have a right to a copy of their medical record whenever the patient requests it.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/patientrecord.html
Link added 2006-06-03; reviewed 2006-11-17
- KF3827.R194.2 - Legislated Ecommerce, Privacy, and Security: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
Roy Rada, MD, PhD
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The Congressional Act containing Administrative Simplification is called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA. When Congress realized that standardized, electronic, provider-payer transactions would become commonplace, Congress felt obligated to protect the privacy and security of health information.
Accordingly Congress added to HIPAA the requirements for a Privacy Rule and a Security Rule.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/hipaa.html
Link added 2006-06-15; reviewed 2006-11-17