Health Aid of Ohio Notice of Privacy Practices
As Required by the Privacy Regulations Promulgated Pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED, AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO YOUR IDENTIFIABLE HEALTH INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Our organization is dedicated to maintaining the privacy of your identifiable health information. In conducting our business, we will create records regarding you and the treatment and services we provide to you. We are required by law to maintain the confidentiality of health information that identifies you. We also are required by law to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices concerning your identifiable health information. By law, we must follow the terms of the notice of privacy practices that we have in effect at the time.
To summarize, this notice provides you with the following important information:
How we may use and disclose your identifiable health information
Your privacy rights in your identifiable health information
Our obligations concerning the use and disclosure of your identifiable health information.
The terms of this notice apply to all records containing your identifiable health information that are created or retained by our practice. We reserve the right to revise or amend our notice of privacy practices. Any revision or amendment to this notice will be effective for all of your records our practice has created or maintained in the past, and for any of your records that we may create or maintain in the future. Our organization will post a copy of our current Notice in our offices in a prominent location, and you may request a copy of our most current notice during any office visit.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS NOTICE, PLEASE CONTACT:
Compliance Manager at (216) 252-3900.
WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
The following categories describe the different ways in which we may use and disclose your identifiable health information:
Treatment. Our organization may use your identifiable health information to treat you. For example, we may ask you to undergo laboratory tests (such as blood or urine tests), and we may use the results to help us reach a diagnosis. Many of the people who work for our organization may use or disclose your identifiable health information in order to treat you or to assist others in your treatment. Additionally, we may disclose your identifiable health information to others who may assist in your care, such as your physician, therapists, spouse, children or parents.
Payment. Our organization may use and disclose your identifiable health information in order to bill and collect payment for the services and items you may receive from us. For example, we may contact your health insurer to certify that you are eligible for benefits (and for what range of benefits), and we may provide your insurer with details regarding your treatment to determine if your insurer will cover, or pay for, your treatment. We also may use and disclose your identifiable health information to obtain payment from third parties that may be responsible for such costs, such as family members. Also, we may use your identifiable health information to bill you directly for services and items.
Health Care Operations. Our organization may use and disclose your identifiable health information to operate our business. As examples of the ways in which we may use and disclose your information for our operations, our organization may use your health information to evaluate the quality of care you received from us or to conduct cost-management and business planning activities for our practice.
Appointment Reminders. Our organization may use and disclose your identifiable health information to contact you and remind you of visits/deliveries.
Health-Related Benefits and Services. Our organization may use and disclose your identifiable health information to inform you of health-related benefits or services that may be of interest to you.
Release of Information to Family/Friends. Our organization may release your identifiable health information to a friend or family member that is helping you pay for your health care, or who assists in taking care of you.
Disclosures Required By Law. Our organization will use and disclose your identifiable health information when we are required to do so by federal, state or local law.
Website Privacy Policy
Health Aid of Ohio, Inc has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.
Health Aid of Ohio, Inc believes that strong electronic privacy is crucial. Therefore, unless you designate otherwise, any information you enter within these publications will be known only to you and Health Aid of Ohio, Inc.
We pledge that Health Aid of Ohio, Inc will not release your personal data to anyone else without your consent - period. Contact information may be used occasionally by Health Aid of Ohio, Inc to notify users of new services, events or the like, but will not be given or sold to third parties.
You may change the status of any subscriptions you may have to our publications at any time. Information for doing so is detailed on the main section page for each publication, as well as within every email discussion or newsletter posting.
When we do present user information to our advertisers or audience, it is in the form of statistical compilations of data from visitors' answers to survey questions as well as grouped on-site behavior.
Financial information that is collected is used only to bill the user for products and services, but is never released to anyone without a "need to know," for any reason.
Our site contains links to other sites. Health Aid of Ohio, Inc is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.