COMPLIANCE INFO - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

FACILfT Y RESPONSIBILITY The facility is responsible to: • Maintain the privacy of your health information,to use and disclose information only with your authorization,unless there are exceptions described in this notice or otherwise allowed by related laws,rules and regulations. ® Provide you with a notice as to our legal duties and privacy praeticeswith respect to information we collect,maintain,use, and disclose about you. ® Abide by this-notice i Provide any amendment record along with other documents when information is disclosed • Notify you if we are unable to agree to requested restrictions) . s Accommodate reasonable requests you may have to communicate health information by alternate means of to alternate locations Use or disclose your health information as required for statistical and funding purRoses by the O€fices.to Statewide Health Planning and Developments the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS) The facility reserves the right to change our privacy practices and to make new Practices known to you through our routine methods of communications to the latest address/contact provided. EXA14PIM OF DISCLOSDJU FOR T REATMEIT1',PAYMENT AND HEALTH OFERATIONS - Your health information will be used for the following: We will use your information for treatment. Information obtained by the physician(s),nursing, I ial,administrative staff or other providers of service will be recorded in your record- This ,ormation is used to plan your treatment and services as well as to document progress, events, plans of care,observations and evaluation of care and treatment,information for consultants, diagnostic services or for other providers on traiisfer to another Facility or Hospital. We will our Healt�i Priformafion for payment. A bill may be sent to A third party such as Medicare. Health Maintenance Organizations(HMO),and Insurance Companies or to you. At least some health information may be provided to the payee that ideatifies.your demographic information, the diagnoses and additional health information to support the billing We will use your health information for health care operations. The facility and Corporation and staff will use the health/medzcal record information as needed to carry out the regular operations of the Facility and the respective clinical needs of the treatment staff including the • Collecting and reporting to the Office of Statewide Health Planning&development • Ilse for specific quality assurance processes, committee meetings, on-site reviews for management,internal survey's • Health record information needed for administrative reporting usually for internal Facility use and/or the Corporation. Uses of this information may or may not be specific to a patient's name i.e.collecting information regarding incidents and trending information. Business Associates: The Facility may use outside providers for some of the services that we -rovide through contracts/agreements. Some examples of these services are the use of specialty isultants; i.e. psychiatry,podiatry, radiology, etc-, certain diagnostic tests that are not carried ,it by the Facility, or consultant educators who many use the specific information to carry out training for the Facility staff.