Penn Medicine Home Health Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
A chart headed to Penn Medicine Home Health is protected health information, so the service you fax it with matters as much as the number. Penn Medicine Home Health, a hospital-affiliated home health agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the home care arm of a local health system and receives clinical documents by fax every day. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the agency.
Penn Medicine Home Health Fax Number
Confirm the right fax with the Penn Medicine Home Health office handling your referral
Hours: Intake and records keep weekday hours; the agency's on-call line receives time-sensitive orders after hours.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Penn Medicine Home Health
- A hospital discharge summary and transition-of-care referral
- Wound-care and skilled-nursing orders
- Face-to-face (F2F) encounter documentation
- OASIS-supporting clinical documentation
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
Protected health information and Penn Medicine Home Health
Faxing PHI to Penn Medicine Home Health is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. The rules turn on using a secure, compliant service rather than a public or ad-supported one. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA from the Professional plan at $39.99/month, with the Business plan at $79.99/month for higher volume — a safer route for records going to Penn Medicine Home Health than a public machine.
Cover-sheet basics for faxing Penn Medicine Home Health
How you label the pages decides whether Penn Medicine Home Health can reconnect them if they get separated. Add your callback number so staff can reach you with a question instead of setting the request aside. That routing detail is what ties the record to the correct team at Penn Medicine Home Health.
The honest way to get Penn Medicine Home Health's fax number
A fax number copied from a search result may be stale; Penn Medicine Home Health has the current one. Call Penn Medicine Home Health and ask for the referral intake office or the office you are trying to reach. That one confirmation call is what keeps the documents out of the wrong queue.
Faxing to Penn Medicine Home Health — FAQ
Penn Medicine Home Health receives faxes at any hour, but the offices that process them keep set schedules. Routine records and intake are staffed on weekdays. Send routine requests early in the day for same-day handling; urgent orders are actioned immediately. Expect same-day handling for the urgent orders the on-call team watches for.
Yes — HIPAA permits faxing protected health information when the channel is secure. An unsecured machine in a shared space cannot promise the confidentiality the rules expect. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to Penn Medicine Home Health than a public machine. A secure send protects both you and the patient whose chart it is.
The current line comes from Penn Medicine Home Health directly, since branch numbers change. Call Penn Medicine Home Health and ask for the referral intake office or the office you are reaching. A quick check beats faxing PHI to a number that has moved. That confirmation is the difference between a delivered record and a lost one.
Send a signed release form to the records staff who manage the patient's file. The records office confirms the fax destination for the authorization. A complete request — identifiers, dates, and records wanted — moves fastest. Turnaround depends on the request; routine copies are handled in the order received.
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