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HIPAA does permit this (https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/2083/do-the-...) if a BAA is in place.

(I think it's probably a bad practice, but it's a legal one.)



I figured it did and should have been clearer that I believe it to be an ethical problem, because groups like Cigna are masters of finding just the level of unethical that they can perpetrate without crossing the line to illegal, most of the time.




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