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Privacy Rights Examples of Disclosures
for Treatment, Payment and Health Operations We will use your health information for treatment. For example: Information obtained by a nurse, physician, or other member of your health care team will be recorded in your record and used to determine the course of treatment that should work best for you. Your physician will document in your record his or her expectations of the members of your health care team. Members of your health care team will then record the actions they took and their observations. In that way, the physician will know how you are responding to treatment. We will also provide the physicians, hospitals, or other health care provider who provide you with services outside of CCRPM with copies of various reports that they may request to assist them in treating you. We will use your health information for payment. For example: A bill may be sent to you or a third-party payer. The information on or accompanying the bill may include information that identifies you, as well as your diagnosis, procedures, and supplies used. We will use your health information for regular health operations. For example: The CCRPM medical directors, members of the medical staff, the risk or quality improvement manager, or members of the quality improvement team may use information in your health record to assess the care and outcomes in your case and others like it. This information will then be used in an effort to continually improve the quality and effectiveness of the healthcare and service we provide. Business associates: CCRPM contracts with business associates to assist its functions. Examples include outside billing and collection services, medical equipment maintenance companies, and photocopy services. We may disclose your health information to our business associate so that they can perform the job we’ve asked them to do, to maintain and improve our operations and to bill and be paid for services rendered. To protect your health information, however, we require any such business associate to appropriately safeguard your information. Notification: We may use or disclose information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative, or another person responsible for your care, your location, and general condition. Communication with family: Health professionals, using their best judgment, may disclose to a family member, other relative, close personal friend or any other person you identify, health information relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or payment related to your care. Research: We may disclose information to researchers when their research has been approved by an institutional review board that has reviewed the research proposal and established protocols to ensure the privacy of your health information. Funeral directors: We may disclose health information to funeral directors consistent with applicable law to carry out their duties. Marketing: We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. Fund raising: We may contact you as part of a fund-raising effort. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): We may disclose to the FDA health information relative to adverse events with respect to food, supplements, product and product defects, or post marketing surveillance information to enable product recalls, repairs, or replacement. Workers compensation: We may disclose health information to the extent authorized by and to the extent necessary to comply with laws relating to workers compensation or other similar programs established by law. Public health: As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability. Law enforcement: We may disclose health information for law enforcement purposes as required by law or in response to a valid subpoena. Also, federal law allows your health information to be released to an appropriate health oversight agency, public health authority or attorney, provided that a medical or administrative staff member or business associate believes in good faith that any of us has engaged in unlawful conduct or has otherwise violated professional or clinical standards and is potentially endangering one or more patients, workers or the public and that this information is pertinent. CCRPM Privacy Rights |