And yet most doctors disrespect HIPPA for their youngest adult patients. 99% of the time they come out and tell the parent everything whilenthe young adult is standing right there. They act like such authorities and then I tell them you are breaking the HIPPA laws. They feel like fools. But older teens are adults under the law and their own parents don’t have the right to blindly hear the kid’s dx even for a wrist sprain or whatever.
Who signs their paperwork? Who’s responsible if the insurance doesn’t pay? The parents. (Unless the kid is emancipated).