Quote:I dealt with HIPAA pretty extensively when I worked for a large health insurance provider.  When we'd underwrite the clients, we had to have access to their medical information.  We had to be cleared to be allowed to review the information, and the system that we used during the underwriting process was chalked full of security.  When we did data transfers to upload information to the mainframe, again those jobs were all high security, and the data was fully encrypted.  That data was treated like state secrets because every violation of HIPAA carried a hefty fine.  I don't know what it is today, but it was something like $25k per violation at the time, and that's going back 15+ years.

I went out on short term disability when I had some surgery. My company offers disability insurance and I had to sign waivers to allow the insurance access to my medical records in order to track my progress so I couldn't lie and cheat them out of paychecks. Even after signing the waivers I would have to personally request the doctors office to send information to the insurance company in regards to my progress.

 

The point is, even the people financially supporting these medical issues aren't privy to information regarding the progress of a treatment. There is a very good chance that the team and the NFL has no idea of the status of his progress unless Justin personally communicates it to them and it appears that he isn't communicating with anyone right now.

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