Psychotherapy Notes & HIPAA

Kim Stanger has posted an excellent explanation detailing how HIPAA addresses mental health records and psychotherapy notes. It's great enough that we are only posting a summary and a link to the original article (click the graphic below).

Kim's article addresses:

• Psychotherapy Notes Defined with practical comments and responses

• Limits and Uses of Psychotherapy Notes including authorizations, denials, and health information organizations, and

• briefly the relationship to this and other laws.

Stay (HIPAA) safe,