>>Are you sure HIPPA was involved? <<
It isn’t.
They asked, she told.
There was no third party involved. That’s what HIPPA is about. Reveling medical information to a third party not authorized by the patient.
She should have just said, “I don’t know.”
I think she should have said “I’d like to keep that information between my husband and myself. “
Well, the school did relay the information to other teachers and parents. However, looking over the information about HIPPA, I'm less convinced that it actually applies here. It seems to cover the dissemination of information by insurance and health care providers - neither of which the school qualifies as. Plus, she told the school she was pregnant, but that's the sort of thing that eventually is going to become common knowledge, for obvious reasons.
It seems that the information she didn't like spread around was when she got pregnant - and I'm hard-pressed to see how the timing of your having sex with someone qualifies as "medical information" under the guidelines set by HIPPA.
All the same, the school was at least ethically wrong to just go spreading around the private details of why she was fired to others (Prov. 17:9).
It isn’t.
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Again, if the school sponsors the health plan, they absolutely are bound by the HIPAA provisions. It does not matter that she told the administration, they were not within their legal rights to disclose that information to anyone else, not the faculty and certainly not the students.