The case is available online through WebCivil Supreme [0] if you want to read more about the case.
[0] https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivil/FCASSearch?param=P
I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
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#22Yelp doesn't seem to have brought a lot of a joy into anyone's life.
Based on what?
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#23Countersue the doctor. Unfortunately without a suit to conterweight theirs, they only have upside.
And file a suit against Yelp.
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#24Dr. Joon Song has never heard of the Streisand effect apparently
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#25His Yelp page is getting very active: https://www.yelp.com/biz/joon-song-md-new-york-2
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#26The author claimed that the provider in this case committed billing fraud, by charging the insurance for procedures that were not performed. She should write the NY attorney general; an investigation by the State would make the civil case a lot easier to deal with.
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#27> “They tried to drag my start-up wine-and-spirits technology business into it … They posted my entire medical record, including notes about my mental health, my bills, my insurance info, my driver’s license, birth date and home address,” she said. That screams HIPAA violation, to me. The practice could (and should) be shut down over it.
If it happened.
The story is in a tabloid, and that's such an insanely egregious breach of HIPAA that I'm a little skeptical that it played out exactly like that.
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#28I was nodding along until this: > They posted my entire medical record, including notes about my mental health, my bills, my insurance info, my driver’s license, birth date and home address,” she said. wow. That violates HIPAA law. The counter-sue is going to be huge. Also, I had a related issue where a doctor threatened to sue based on my yelp review. I cut the review back to verifiable facts instead of opinion and…
Reviews are protected speech, this has been litigated multiple times and has precedent in the US. If you live in an area with a SLAPP law I would suggest getting an attorney to file a SLAPP motion for you. The onus is then on the plaintiff to prove they aren't suing you to stifle your speech. If they can't then they have to pay full court costs and your attorney's fees as well as a penalty in many jurisdictions.
In this case the subject is in NY state which has an Anti-SLAPP law and she should apply it and HIPAA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
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#29It is good to hear the other side of the story. I find it impossible for a lawyer company to post medical records of someone else publicly since they are supposed to know what they are doing. I am all for give power to the people but I have seen this being abused a lot nowadays.
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#30Yelp doesn't seem to have brought a lot of a joy into anyone's life.
I visited Spain last summer and my family would typically just walk around where we were looking for a restaurant that seemed good, and almost always got stuck in tourist traps with bad Americanized food at high prices. When we started using Yelp to find places to eat we found little hole-in-the-wall tapas places with absolutely no American influence and amazing food that we still talk about to this day.