RE: Shredding patient envelopes

[Guest guest]

Trash it, as there is nothing identifying

clinical HIPPA info on the envelope.

A. Eads, M.D.

Pinnacle Family Medicine, PLLC

phone fax

P.O.

Box 7275

Woodland

Park, CO 80863

www.PinnacleFamilyMedicine.com

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Locke's in Colorado

Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008

10:54 PM

To: Locke's in Colorado

Subject:

Shredding patient envelopes

What do most of you do with envelopes from patient payments?

They generally

have a return address for the patient that was written or stamped on the

envelope.

No Clinic

name on the envelope , but the envelope would be in

the clinic trash – not hard to tell whose trash it is.

Is this HIPAA

material? Or just trash?

If we were

STD’s R Us Clinic – I suppose it could be a big deal to find a

patient name in the trash.

Safest thing is to

just shred it, I suppose.

Thoughts?

Locke, MD

[Guest guest]

I shred them. Identifying whose trash it came from is easy. Why not just pop it into the shredder? I shred everything with anyone's name on it. Then again, in this office, we LOVE shredding. We have a micro shredder. Shredding everything removes all thought and worry about "to shred or not to shred?".

Subject: RE: Shredding patient envelopesTo: Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 12:57 AM

Trash it, as there is nothing identifying clinical HIPPA info on the envelope.

A. Eads, M.D.

Pinnacle Family Medicine, PLLC

phone fax

P.O. Box 7275

Woodland Park, CO 80863

www.PinnacleFamilyM edicine.com

From: Practiceimprovement 1yahoogroups (DOT) com [mailto: Practiceimprovement 1yahoogroups (DOT) com ] On Behalf Of Locke's in ColoradoSent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:54 PMTo: Locke's in ColoradoSubject: [Practiceimprovemen t1] Shredding patient envelopes

What do most of you do with envelopes from patient payments?

They generally have a return address for the patient that was written or stamped on the envelope.

No Clinic name on the envelope , but the envelope would be in the clinic trash – not hard to tell whose trash it is.

Is this HIPAA material? Or just trash?

If we were STD’s R Us Clinic – I suppose it could be a big deal to find a patient name in the trash.

Safest thing is to just shred it, I suppose.

Thoughts?

Locke, MD