Confidentiality and Psychotherapy

Paul W. Mosher, M.D., Private Practice Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

This presentation will describe the 60 year history of the divergence between the increasingly weak legal protection of ordinary medical information and the increasingly stringent protection of the confidentiality of psychotherapy information. Special attention will be given to the origin of the "psychotherapy notes" provision in the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the way that provision circumscribes disclosures in insurers. The limitation of disclosure of other information to third party payers to the "minimum necessary" amount will also be explained.

Dr. Mosher does not have financial relationships with commercial interests.

Location:	PBS Building, TU#3, 2nd Flr
Sponsor:	Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Contact:	Linette Thorp thorpl@upstate.edu 464-3104
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