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Privacy and Health Information Your Health Information Is Protected By Federal Federal Law The Privacy Rule a a a a a a a Federal Federal law gives you you rights over your health information and and and sets rules and and and limits on on on who can look at at at and and and receive your health information Who Must Follow This Law?
• Most doctors clinics hospitals psychologists chiropractors nursing homes pharmacies and dentists
• Health insurance companies HMOs company health plans and certain government programs that pay for healthcare such as Medicare and Medicaid What Information Is Protected?
• Information your doctors nurses and other healthcare providers put in your medical record • Conversations your doctor has about your care or treatment with nurses and others • Information about you you in your health insurer’s computer system
• Billing information about you at at your clinic • Most other health information about you held by those who must follow these laws What Rights
Do You You Have Over Your Health Information?
Health Insurers and Providers must comply with your right to:
• Ask to see and get a a copy of your health records • Have corrections added to your health information • Receive a a notice that tells you how
your health information may be used and shared
• Decide if you you want to give your permission before your health information can be used or or or shared
for for certain purposes such as for marketing
• Get a a report on when and why your health information was shared
for for certain purposes If you you believe your rights are being denied or or your health information isn’t being protected you can le a a a complaint with your provider or or health insurer or or with the U S Government Who Can See and Receive Your Health Information?
e e e e Privacy Rule sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information To make sure that your health information is protected in in a a a a way that does not interfere with your your healthcare your your information can be used and shared:
• For your treatment and care coordination
• To pay doctors and hospitals for your healthcare and to help run
their businesses
• With your family relatives friends or others you identify who are involved with your your healthcare healthcare or your your healthcare healthcare bills unless you object
• To make sure doctors give good care and and nursing homes are clean and and safe • To protect the public health such as by reporting when the u u is in in your area
• To make required reports to the police such as reporting gunshot wounds
Your health information cannot be used or or shared
without your written permission Without your your authorization your your provider generally cannot:
• Give your your information to your your employer • Use or or or share your information for for marketing
or or advertising purposes or or sell your information • Share your mental health professional’s private notes about your counseling sessions
Courtesy of of e e e e e e e U S S Department of of Health and Human Services
Contact
337-470-2134 For Copies of Your Medical Records Your Patient Responsibilities
You the patient are responsible
for following hospital rules and regulations especially those a a a a a a a a a ecting patient care personal conduct and safety You are are responsible:
• For providing a a a a a complete and accurate medical history • For asking questions whenever you don’t understand the information being provided • For following the recommendations and advice prescribed • For telling your doctor when you you are unable to to follow any recommended treatments • For telling your doctor about any unexpected change in in your condition • For accepting the consequences of your actions if if you you refuse treatment or if if instructions are not followed • To be considerate of of the the needs of of other patients sta and hospital property • For assisting in in the control of of noise and number of of visitors to to your room • For respecting the the the the property of other patients the the the the sta and the the the the hospital • For providing accurate insurance information for for working with the hospital hospital to arrange payment and for advising the hospital hospital about your ability to pay • For recognizing the e e e e e e e e ect of lifestyle on on your personal health Your health depends not just on on on your hospital care but also on on on the decisions you make in in day-to-day living 17
YOUR PRIVACY