[Spooky23]

Don’t worry, US medical practices will give you a big show about doing anything in the name of HIPPA.

Rest assured, it is a show, and most of your information is fed in real time to a half dozen different entities whom you have never heard of. The people who sell prescription data provide it to the pharma company before your insurer even gets the claim.

[IC4RUS]

Is the data anonymized when they send it? And is there anything I can read about this practice further? Not trying to challenge you, just curious.

[balfirevic]

Is what they're doing illegal or is that behavior not prohibited by HIPPA?

[Spooky23]

It is legal. HIPPA protects you from chatty employees and gross incompetence.

[redbeard0x0a]

"Protects" you. It just gives some penalties to the companies for gross negligence, kind of like the GDPR is trying to do for all of personal data in the EU.