Privatus may use your health information for health care operations of Privatus, including for quality assurance and improvement activities, to review the competence and qualifications of health care professions, medical review, legal services and auditing functions, and general administrative activities of Privatus. For example, we may need to give a third party guarantor of payment information about your treatment so that the guarantor can pay Privatus for the services. Privatus may use or disclose your health information in order to bill and receive reimbursement for services provided to you, including to third party payment sources. Privatus may also share your information with outside providers who are treating you. You may receive more than one service (program) during your treatment period with such information shared between programs. Your nurse/therapist and other health care professionals will communicate with one another personally and through the case record to coordinate care provided. Privatus may use and disclose your health information to provide you with health treatment, including for your plan of care.įor example, information obtained by a nurse/therapist will be recorded in your record and used to determine the course of treatment. The following categories describe different ways Privatus may use and disclose your information, but even if not specifically listed below Privatus may use and disclose your health information as required by law or in accordance with a signed authorization. Generally, Privatus will not disclose your health information without a written authorization, except as described in this Notice or as otherwise required by law. I. HOW PRIVATUS MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION You will also be asked to acknowledge receipt of this Notice by Privatus from time to time. The new revised Notice will apply to all of your health information maintained by us. We may change the terms of this Notice at any time. We are also required by law to provide you with this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information and to abide by the terms of the Notice that are currently in effect.
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information and to notify you in the event that there is a breach of your unsecured health information. Your “health information” or “medical information” for purposes of this Notice is information about you created and received by Privatus, including demographic information, that may reasonably identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, or payment for the provision of your health care and certain related services from Privatus. This Notice applies to Privatus’s workforce (employees and contractors) as well as service providers of Privatus (known as “business associates”) who receive or have access to health information of Privatus’ clients. (“Privatus”) and all records maintained by Privatus that contain such information. This Notice of Privacy Practices (“Notice”) applies to the use and disclosure of health information of clients of Privatus Care Solutions, Inc.
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
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