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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.
What Information Is Protected?
• Any information entered into your medical record including conversations between you, your doctor and any medical sta
• Your billing or insurer’s information in hospital or provider’s computers
Health Insurers and Providers must help you:
• See and get a copy of your health records
• Have corrections 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
When Can Your Health Information Be Shared?
• For the coordination of your healthcare and treatment
• To pay doctors and hospitals for your healthcare
• With approved family, relatives, friends or others you identify who are involved with your healthcare or healthcare bills
• To ensure that all healthcare professionals and facilities uphold 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 healthcare information CANNOT BE
SHARED with your EMPLOYER
or used for MARKETING purposes WITHOUT YOUR WRITTEN CONSENT. For copies of your medical records, call 123-456-7890.
Courtesy of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
PRIVACY