When I get surgery through jobs insurance, what person in the company will be able to see what type surgery??? -

Your employer won't even know if you used the insurance - unless YOU tell them. It's against the privacy law (known as HIPAA) to share your medical information with an unauthorized third party - except in the following cases: - public health and safety (a gunshot wound, for instance needs to be reported to police. Flu data is collected to determine an outbreak in an area - but then you won't be indentified by name, you'd be "subject 1" or something.) -your insurance company for payment - another doctor for care coordination (a hospital ER can call your regular doctor to ask how they treat your particular ailment) -Anyone you designate IN WRITING to have access to that information = a parent, sibling, adult child, spouse, or other proxy - who can make decisions on your care Your medical records are confidential. Only the insurer will be aware of what procedure you had performed. The exception, of course, is if your employer is either partially or fully 'self-insured', and the claims are processed 'in house'. Then the staff in that area would be privy to your surgery, but they are mandated to keep the information private from all others who do not need access to the information. No one at your work will be told what kind of surgery. The most the insurance company can tell them is at the end of the year what the statistics are, but they can't single you out. Your insurance usage is between you and the insurance carrier, not you and your employer. I believe it should only be the Human Resources person, anyone other than that I believe might be breaking HIPAA compliance about privacy of medical records. Not sure though. According to my mother, who is the VP of Human Resources of a global company, nobody will be able to see any private information. The benefit manager will know that a large claim was filed, but he or she will not know who the claim belongs to or what it is for. However, if you tell anyone in the company, word will likely spread. No. no one I'd hope. Hr if anyone. I would think anything coming from the hospital wouldn't include any details (the company obviously receives paperwork regarding the visit but it shouldn't say what it was about specifically). Someone may be able to see the total cost though http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/Pa-St... Possibly the Benefits Administrator, who works in the HR department.