Which situation shows a violation of the HIPAA law?

HIPAA generally allows a pharmacist to share relevant health information with a doctor involved in the patient’s care and with an insurer for payment purposes. A patient’s boss is not ordinarily entitled to the patient’s medical information without the patient’s authorization, so discussing the illness with the boss violates HIPAA. The correct choice is “The pharmacist speaks about the patient’s illness with the patient’s boss.”

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