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Privacy And Health Information
The Privacy Rule, (called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA), is a Federal law that gives you rights over your health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information.
PROTECTED INFORMATION IS: ANY information entered into your medical record including conversations between you, your doctor and any medical sta Billing or insurance information in hospital or provider’s computers
Your insurance and healthcare providers MUST ALLOW YOU TO:
• GET a copy of your health records
• HAVE revisions made, or information added to your health information
• RECEIVE a notice that tells you how your health information may be used and shared
• DECIDE if you want to give your permission BEFORE your health information can be used or shared
• GET a report on when and why your health information was shared for certain purposes
YOUR INFORMATION CAN BE USED OR SHARED:
• To coordinate your care and treatment
• To pay doctors and hospitals
• With family, relatives, friends
or others that you choose to be involved with your healthcare or bills
• To hold all healthcare professionals and facilities to a standard of care
• To protect the public health, for example: by reporting when the u is in your area
• To make required reports to the police, such as reporting
gunshot wounds
Remember! Your health information cannot be shared with your employer or used for marketing purposes without your written consent.
Call Ext. 7899 if you have questions or
to get copies
of your
records.
Courtesy of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
YOUR PRIVACY