085: HIPAA Authorization

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HIPAAA authorization. You guys have probably heard of this every single time you go to the doctor, the hospital, or go anywhere to get any kind of test. Almost all medical personnel want to put on to you to put it into writing on who has access to these medical records, whatever the procedure is. Who can they talk to? Who can they show records to? It's very important to have a HIPAA authorization, a general HIPAA authorization in place as part of your revocable living trust centered estate plan. So your three key documents in your Revocable Living Trust Center to plan that deal with your health care are your health care power of attorney, your living wills slash advance directive, and your HIPAA authorization. Now, like I said, the HIPAA authorization is general is usually a general grant of power to all medical personnel to share your medical records, your medical information with specific people. We can make that more specific. And we see this usually when people are very sick and maybe they're in their last days of their life or they're just older and they have very specific medical professionals that they see on a regular basis. Like they always go to this doctor. They always go to this hospital, they always see this specialist. If that's the case, we will usually always put those specific entities or those specific people in there and stating that you want them to specifically share your medical information with these other people, with people who you just feel need to have this information to make decisions on your behalf. Usually your health care power of attorney is the main person that is to receive that information. But again, all of this is part of your revocable living trust centered estate plan to get you the health care that you want, exactly how you want it.