re: Have some Travinski injury scoop

Mikie had Doug Thompson on yesterday and he explained all of this and why. Pretty good explanation of the injury and why Travinski hasn’t been framing pitches and even Millazo and the passed ball. Here’s a link if you wanna give a listen.

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All that maybe true but Milazzo had to vindicate himself for allowing Wake to have 1st and 3rd when he let the strikeout pitch to go to the wall. He sure as hell DID make a play at the plate courtesy of Tre Morgan's heads up play charging the bunt from 1st. A season altering play it was!

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I mean, that’s not true either. I was personally responsible for rolling out and compliance to HIPAA for a Fortune 100 company. Some people in HR with access to medical info fell under HIPAA guidelines, as do many other professions in insurance and healthcare who are not direct care providers.

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Well yeah, it can apply to organizations involved in the billing, paying, and storing of that data.

But what I said stands in that is doesn't apply to all medical providers. from the hipaa site LINK

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Who must comply with HIPAA privacy standards?
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As required by Congress in HIPAA, the Privacy Rule covers:

- Health plans
- Health care clearinghouses
- Health care providers who conduct certain financial and administrative transactions electronically. These electronic transactions are those for which standards have been adopted by the Secretary under HIPAA, such as electronic billing and fund transfers.

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Unless something has changed, being a health care provider alone is not enough to trigger HIPAA compliance obligations; the health care provider must also engage in a standard transaction. We are getting way off the reservation here. I'm sure you know your stuff about HIPAA and how it applies to organizations that you have handled. But there are some nuisances that I've had to fight people on. I was involved with a lawsuit where a medical provider was giving out medical information and she got away with it b/c she wasn't a covered entity due to her billing practices. That was about 10-15 years ago and blew my mind at the time.

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ETA If your HR person has knowledge of your health records obtained through working with insurance company, payment, workers comp, disability claims, etc, they are absolutely required to adhere to HIPAA standards.

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I never said otherwise.

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If you don’t think that framing

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OK - I note that Milazo is a little more graceful and precise with the 'framing' issue than I have noticed from other catchers.

But I have always been a critic of the whole 'framing' issue - if I were an ump and saw that post-catch movement of the glove my first instinct would be that the catcher is trying to make a ball look like a strike - and that would impact my decision the other way - if at all. certainly would not appreciate it.

Perhaps my instincts as an ump is way off - one spot in baseball I have never ever done. (had to fill in as an ump once at a Pony league game - only ump on the field - had the most miserable time of my entire baseball experience - wanted to slink off the field at the end



just my 2cents on 'framing' - not a fan

If we win it all without him it kind of helps us as a program in the long run. I hate it for him but he was so red hot he was starting to look like a top 100 pick

Maybe we get him back next year now