Know what your HIPAA rights entail.
From doctors to nurses, all medical staff know the important of HIPAA, or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, laws and regulations. In an effort to keep your information safe, these rules and regulations keep your medical information private. HIPAA laws help to protect your individual health information. This includes your current, past, and present health conditions, provisions of your health care, and current, past, and present payments for health provisions.
Check out these facts about the law and how it protects your information.
- Your health information is protected under the law. Your health information will never be aired for all to see. You need to give your formal consent for your information to be shared.
- Increases transparency between your doctor, insurance company, and yourself. As part of HIPAA, your health care providers need to tell you how they'll use your information, including if they'll make any disclosures of your information to necessary parties.
- You have a right to your health information. If you'd like, you're able to ask your healthcare provider for a copy of any disclosures, and you're even able to make changes to them as long as they're appropriate.
- Your health information is only to be used for your health purposes. It can't be used for any other purpose.
- Your health information is only shared on a need to know basis by authorized personnel.
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