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Treatment Alternatives or Health-Related Benefits and Organ and Tissue Donation. If you are an organ donor, we
Services. We may use and disclose your protected health may release your protected health information after your
information to send you information about treatment death to organizations that handle organ procurement or
alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that organ, eye, or tissue transplantation or to an organ donation
might be of interest to you. bank, as necessary to facilitate organ or tissue donation and
To Business Associates. We may contract with individuals transplantation.
or entities known as Business Associates to perform various Military. If you are a member of the armed forces, we may
functions on our behalf or to provide certain types of release your protected health information as required by
services. In order to perform these functions or to provide military command authorities. We may also release protected
these services, Business Associates will receive, create, health information about foreign military personnel to the
maintain, transmit, use, and/or disclose your protected appropriate foreign military authority.
health information, but only after they agree in writing with Workers’ Compensation. We may release your protected
us to implement appropriate safeguards regarding your health information for workers’ compensation or similar
protected health information. For example, we may disclose programs, but only as authorized by, and to the extent
your protected health information to a Business Associate to necessary to comply with, laws relating to workers’
process your claims for Plan benefits or to provide support compensation and similar programs that provide benefits for
services, such as utilization management, pharmacy benefit work-related injuries or illness.
management, or subrogation, but only after the Business
Associate enters into a Business Associate contract with us. Public Health Risks. We may disclose your protected health
information for public health activities. These activities
As Required by Law. We will disclose your protected health generally include the following: (1) to prevent or control
information when required to do so by federal, state, or local disease, injury, or disability; (2) to report births and deaths;
law. For example, we may disclose your protected health (3) to report child abuse or neglect; (4) to report reactions to
information when required by national security laws or public medications or problems with products; (5) to notify people of
health disclosure laws.
recalls of products they may be using; (6) to notify a person
To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. We may who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk
use and disclose your protected health information when for contracting or spreading a disease or condition; (7) to
necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety, notify the appropriate government authority if we believe that
or the health and safety of the public or another person. a patient has been the victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic
Any disclosure, however, would only be to someone able to violence. We will only make this disclosure if you agree, or
help prevent the threat. For example, we may disclose your when required or authorized by law.
protected health information in a proceeding regarding the Health Oversight Activities. We may disclose your protected
licensure of a physician.
health information to a health oversight agency for activities
To Plan Sponsors. For the purpose of administering the authorized by law. These oversight activities include, for
plan, we may disclose to certain employees of the employer example, audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure.
protected health information. However, those employees will These activities are necessary for the government to
only use or disclose that information as necessary to perform monitor the health care system, government programs, and
plan administration functions or as otherwise required by compliance with civil rights laws.
HIPAA, unless you have authorized further disclosures. Your Lawsuits and Disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a
protected health information cannot be used for employment dispute, we may disclose your protected health information
purposes without your specific authorization.
in response to a court or administrative order. We may also
Special Situations disclose your protected health information in response to
a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by
In addition to the above, the following categories describe
other possible ways that we may use and disclose someone involved in a legal dispute, but only if efforts have
your protected health information without your specific been made to tell you about the request or to obtain a court
authorization. For each category of uses or disclosures, we will or administrative order protecting the information requested.
explain what we mean and present some examples. Not every Law Enforcement. We may disclose your protected health
use or disclosure in a category will be listed. However, all of the information if asked to do so by a law- enforcement official:
ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall (1) in response to a court order, subpoena, warrant,
within one of the categories. summons, or similar process; (2) to identify or locate a

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