HIPPA Policy
We at Craft Wheel Chair Repair practice all of HIPPA Privacy Security rules and regulations at all times.
If you would like to have a copy of this publication please contact atwc@att.net Shay Moore at (323) 931-6164/65 Office, and (866) 931-6164 Toll Free.
CRAFT WHEELCHAIR REPAIR
4077 West Pico Blvd, Suite D
Los Angeles, CA 90019-4308
Phone (323) 931-6164/65
Toll Free (866) 931-6164
Fax (323) 931-2907
Notice of Privacy Practices
Effective April 14, 2003
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
Please Review This Notice Carefully
Craft Wheelchair Repair is required to maintain the privacy of your Protected Health Information (“PHI”) and to provide you with a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI. PHI is information about you, including basic demographic information that may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services. This Notice of Privacy Practices (“Notice”) describes how we may use and disclose your PHI to carry out treatment, payment, or health care op-erations and for other specified purposes that are permitted by law. The Notice also describes your rights with respect to your PHI.
Craft Wheelchair Repair is required to follow the terms of this Notice. We will use your PHI for purposes of treatment, payment or health care operations. We will not use or disclose your PHI for any other purposes about you without your written authorization, except as described in this Notice. We reserve the right to change our practices and this Notice and to make the new Notice effective for all PHI we maintain. Upon request, we will provide a revised Notice to you.
For Treatment
How Craft Wheelchair Repair May Use or Disclose Your Health Information
Craft Wheelchair Repair may use your health information to provide, coordinate ‘and manage your health care and related services. For example, information obtained by a health care provider, such as a physician, nurse or pharmacist providing health services to you will record information in your record that is related to your treatment. This information is necessary for health care providers to determine what treatment you should receive. Health care providers will also record actions taken by them in the course of your treatment and note how you respond to the actions. Craft Wheelchair Repair for example, will use this information to confer with your physician or dentist regarding your prescription needs.
This notice is effective in its entirety as of April 14, 2003.
For Payment
Craft Wheelchair Repair may use and disclose your health to others for purposes of receiving payment for treatment and services that you receive. For example, Craft Wheelchair Repair will contact your insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other third-party payors to determine whether it will pay for your prescription and the amount of your co-payment responsibility. Craft Wheelchair Repair will bill you or a third-party payor for the cost of prescription medication dispensed to you. The information on or accompanying the bill may include information that identifies you, as well as the prescriptions that you are taking.
For Health Care Operations
Craft Wheelchair Repair may use and share information about you for operational purposes. For example, your health information may be used by members of the Craft Wheelchair Repair staff to:
- evaluate the performance of technicians or other staff
- assess the quality of care and outcomes in your cases and similar cases
- learn how to improve our facilities and services
- determine how to continually improve the quality and effectiveness of the health care and services we provide to you
Craft Wheelchair Repair Will Use or Disclose PHI in Its Regular Course of Business for The Following Rea-sons:
Communications With You
Craft Wheelchair Repairwill use your information to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you (if applicable to provider).
Communications With Individuals Involved In Your Care or Payment For Your Care
Craft Wheelchair Repair using our professional judgment, may disclose to other healthcare professional such as physicians and pharmacists, a family member, other relative, close personal friend or any person you identify, PHI relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or payment related to your care.
Notification
Craft Wheelchair Repair may use or disclose PHI about you to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative, or another person responsible for your care, your location and general condition.
Required by Law
Craft Wheelchair Repair may use and disclose information about you as required by
law. For example, Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose information for the following purposes:
- for judicial and administrative proceedings pursuant to legal authority
- to report information related to victims of abuse, neglect or domestic violence
- to assist law enforcement officials in their law enforcement duties
This notice is effective in its entirety as of April 14, 2003.
This notice is effective in its entirety as of April 14, 2003.
Incidental Disclosures
Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose PHI incidental to our provision of treatment, payment or health care operations. For example, in our telephone discussions with physicians, PHI might be overheard by a member of our staff other that the staff member placing the call.
Public Health
Your health information may be used or disclosed for public health activities such as assisting public health authorities or other legal authorities to prevent or control disease, injury or disability or for other health oversight activities.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose to the FDA or its agents PHI adverse events with respect to drugs, foods, supplements, products and product defects or post marketing surveillance information to enable product recalls, repairs or replacement (if applicable to provider).
Health Oversight Activities
Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose PHI about you to an oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities include audits, investigations, inspections, as necessary for our licensure and for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with civil rights laws.
Business Associates
These are some services provided by us through contracts with business associates. Examples may include, from time to time, mailing or delivery services. When these services are contracted for, we may disclose PHI about you to our business associate only to the extent necessary so that they can perform the job we have asked them to do. To protect the PHI about you, we require the business associate to appropriately safeguard the PHI.
Worker’s Compensation
Your health information may be used or disclosed in order to comply with laws and regulations related to Worker’s Compensation.
Craft Wheelchair Repair Is Further Permitted To Use Or Disclose PHI About You For The Following Purposes
Coroners, Medical Examiners and Funeral Directors
Craft Wheelchair Repair may release PHI about you to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. Craft Wheelchair Repair may also disclose PHI to funeral directors consistent with applicable law to carry out their duties.
Organ or Tissue Procurement Organizations
Consistent with applicable law, Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose PHI about you to organ procurement or-ganizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or transplantation of organs for the purpose of tissue donation and transplant.
Correctional Institution
If you are or become an inmate of a correctional institution, Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose to the institution or its agents PID necessary for your health and the health and safety of others.
Threat to Health or Safety
Craft Wheelchair Repair may use and disclose PHI about you when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of another person.
Military and Veterans
If you are a member of the Armed Forces, Craft Wheelchair Repair may release PHI about you as required by military command authorities. Craft Wheelchair Repair may also release PHI about foreign military personnel to the appropriate military authority.
National Security and Intelligence Activities
Craft Wheelchair Repair may release PHI about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, or other national security activities authorized by law.
Protective Government Functions
Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose PHI about you to authorized federal officials so they provide protection to the President, other authorized persons, or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations.
Victims of Abuse, Neglect or Domestic Violence
Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose PHI about you to a government authority, such as a social service or protective services agency if we reasonably believe you are a victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. We will only disclose this type of information to the extent required by law, if you agree to the disclosure or if the disclosure is allowed by law and we believe it is necessary to prevent serious harm to you or someone else or the law enforcement or public official that is to receive the report represents that it is necessary and will not be used against you.
Research
Craft Wheelchair Repair may disclose PHI about you 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 information (if applicable to provider).
Other Uses and Disclosures of PHI
Other uses and disclosures, other than those described above or otherwise permitted or required by law, will only be made with your written authorization. You may revoke such a written authorization in writing at any time. Upon receipt of the written revocation, we will stop using or disclosing PHI about you, except to the extent that we have already taken action in reliance on your authorization.
This notice is effective in its entirety as of April 14, 2003.