You work in the billing department of your agency and while processing claims, you notice the name of someone you know. Since you are curious, you decide to investigate and you pull their medical…

Yes is incorrect because employment at the organization does not grant blanket access to all records; access must be tied to a specific, work-related need for each record accessed.

No. HIPAA's minimum necessary standard requires that access to PHI be strictly limited to what is needed to perform a specific, authorized job function. A billing employee has no legitimate treatment or billing purpose for reading the full medical record of someone they personally know, and accessing it out of curiosity is an unauthorized use of PHI that violates both HIPAA regulations and organizational policy.