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Privacy Notice
Diabetes DME is committed to preserving the privacy of your personal health information. We are required by law to protect the privacy of your medical information and to provide you with this notice describing how your medical information is used and disclosed for your treatment, to obtain payment for treatment, for administrative purposes, and to evaluate the quality of care that you receive.
Uses and Disclosures: We use and disclose elements of your Protected Health Information (PHI) in the following ways:
- Treatment: including, but not limited to, inpatient, outpatient, or psychiatric care.
- Disclosure: to your treating physician(s).
- Payment: including, but not limited to, asking you about your health insuranceplan(s) or other payment sources; preparing and sending bills or claims; and collecting unpaid amounts, either ourselves or through a collection agency or attorney.
- Health care operations: including, but not limited to, financial or billing audits; internal quality assurance; personnel decisions; participation in managed care plans; defense of legal matters; business planning; and outside storage of our records.
- Disclosures when release is authorized by law: including, but not limited to, judicial settings and by health oversight regulatory agencies, law enforcement, and correctional institutions.
- Uses or disclosures for specialized government functions: including, but not limited to, the protection of the President or high-ranking government officials; for lawful national intelligence activities; for military purposes; or for the evaluation and health of members of the foreign services.
- Emergency situations or to avert serious health/safety situations.
- If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release medical information about you and your dependents as requested by military command authorities.
- Disclosures of de-identified information.
- Disclosures relating to worker’s compensation claims.
- To medical examiners, coroners, or funeral directors to aid in identifying you or to help them in performing their duties. To organizations that handle organ and tissue donations.
- Disclosure to public health organizations or federal organizations in the event of a communicable disease or to report a defective device or untoward event to a biological product (food or medication).
- Disclosures to business associates who perform health care operations for us and commit to respecting your PHI.
- Certain laws may require or permit us to use and disclose your medical information for other purposes without your consent or authorization.
- We will notify you by email or US Mail of any breaches of your PHI.
