Office of Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 307, Washington, DC 20004
Contact: Gerry Roth, District-Wide Privacy Official
Phone: (202) 727-8001
Fax: (202) 727-0246
*Official District contact for handling complaints and all HIPAA compliance matters

The District of Columbia Privacy Office will have the primary responsibility for on-going HIPAA compliance for the District. The Privacy Officer, or designee, will monitor compliance of all designated District health care components, care components. Specifically the Privacy Office will:

• Work cooperatively with the District’s designated health care components in overseeing patient rights to: inspect, amend, request restrictions to access, and receive an accounting of disclosures
• Ensure compliance with privacy practices and coordinate with the Office of Personnel for consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with privacy policies for all individuals in the District’s workforce
• Promote activities to foster information privacy awareness within the District and related entities
• Cooperate with the Office of Civil Rights and other legal entities, and District officials in any compliance reviews or investigations
• Handles complaints and protected health information inquiry requests