Transfer of care /monitoring

I had a bi-v St. Jude’s ( Abbott) pacemaker inplanted 1 year ago. I have the Merlin home monitoring system and follow up regularly with primary cardiologist and ECP annually. I just changed companies and insurance, now I am setting up care with cardiologist in new insurance network,( Kelsey Seybold). I’m curious as to who and how monitoring of my device will be changed. I’m still fairly new to all of this and was not expecting a job change. I have had one fairly long episode of a fib in the year since implantation, so I want to be sure that everything is monitored.  Any advice will be helpful. 

4 Comments

Changes

by Tracey_E - 2018-07-08 06:17:22

the old doctor has to call sjm and release you. Mine didn’t do it until I’d asked several times, I wasn’t able to do it, and they wouldn’t add the new doctor until the old one called. This was a year ago, maybe it’s less hassle now that it’s abbott. 

Changes

by AgentX86 - 2018-07-08 15:41:17

I'm sure changing this information is mired in HIPPA. They have to be sure changes are authorized and since they really don't know you (likely signed up by your EP - I was), so need that authorization. OTOH, if you're switched without consent, they could really be HIPAA deep in s...

Hipaa

by AgentX86 - 2018-07-08 22:08:50

HIPAA allows interchange of medical information for your care, certainly.  It does not allow free exchange of (identifyable) medical information to others not involved in your care (other than the federal government, of course).  However HIPAA has nothing to do with other personal information (yes, lots of $$ there). Care providers *do* take it seriously, or they'd better.

transfer

by The real Patch - 2018-07-10 16:56:56

Don't make it more difficult than need be. Just call your new doctor and they will take care of getting everything. If they need paperwork they'll let you know

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