Privacy Notice
DaiAn Corporation,
DBA PEC Healthcare and DBA PEC Hospice, has policies and
procedures in place according to Federal and State laws
and regulations on HIPAA.
This notice
describes how medical information about you may be used
and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.
Please review it carefully.
Our agency
is required by law to abide by the terms of the following
notice. If at any time changes in this information must
be made, you will receive a revised copy of this notice.
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about
the information provided here or the handling of your health
information by our agency, please contact our clinical office
and speak to one of our privacy committee members at (714)
689-2300 extension 2014 and 2025. This notice takes effects
March 1, 2003.
Grievances
arising from matters covered by our agency notice of privacy
practices are to be given directly to the Privacy Officer
who will investigate the grievance within five working days
after receipt of such grievance and will make every effort
to resolve the grievance to the patient's satisfaction.
Your
personal and medical information will not be disclosure
to third party unless it is authorized by you in the Agreement
and Consent, the form which you sign at the beginning of
the service.
Typically,
your information is only to be transferred and/or discussed
when the issue regarding your care is involved. The third
party may be the other home health agency, the hospital,
the laboratory, the pharmacy, the hospital, the physician,
the physical therapy, the DME company, the accreditation
body (such as JCAHO), the Department of Health and Services,
and your insurance company.
Our agency
will use your individually identifiable health information
to:
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Carry
out the treatment ordered for you by your physician,
such as wound care, physical therapy, and/or medication
administration including IV medication |
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Bill
your insurance/payer sources for our services, including
sending copies of our evaluations, clinical notes progress
notes to them. |
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Carry
our health care operations such as quality assurance
reviews and practitioner evaluations. |
Our
agency, by law, will also use your medical information for
certain purposes for which it does not require your consent
including:
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Giving
information to emergency technicians and ER personnel
to facilitate treatment in the case of an emergency.
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Complying
with State Law regarding the reporting of certain communicable
diseases, evidence of information on victims of abuse,
neglect or domestic violence, birth or death, or the
conduct of public health surveillance, investigation
or intervention. |
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Complying
with federal and/or State Law to report or to provide
access to information for the purpose of management
audits, financial audits, program monitoring and evaluation,
or licensure or certification of the agency or individuals.
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Where
required by law including to report adverse events with
respect to food or dietary supplements, product defects
or problems including problems with the use or labeling
of a product, or biological product deviations if the
disclosure is made to the person required or directed
to report such information to the food and drug. |
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Where
needed to enable product recalls, repairs or replacements.
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To
conduct post marketing surveillance to comply with requirements
or at the direction of the food and drug administration.
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To
an employer about you if you are a member of the workforce
of the employer and only if the agency has provided
healthcare to you at the requests of your employer to
conduct an evaluation relating to medical surveillance
of the workplace or to evaluate whether you have a work
related medical surveillance and the employer needs
such information to comply with State or Federal law. |
Our agency
may use your information to call you with appointment reminders
or information about treatment alternatives or other health
related benefits and services that may be of interest to
you.
Any other
uses or disclosures of your individually identifiable health
information by us can only be made with your written authorization,
and you may revoke such authorization at any time, provided
that you do so in writing.
You have
the right to:
1.
Receive a written notice of information practices from
our agency such as this one.
2.
Access your own health information, including a right
to inspect and obtain a copy of that information.
3.
Request amendment or correction of protected health information
that is inaccurate or incomplete.
4.
Request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of
protected health information as provided by section 164.522a.
Under the provisions of that rule, the agency does not
have to agree to those requested restrictions.
5.
Receive a paper copy of this notice if you had originally
agreed to receive an electronic copy.
6.
Designate another person such as a family member to exercise
your rights under this privacy notice for you
In addition
to the provisions above, the agency protects your health
information by the following practices:
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All physical copies of individually identifiable health
information maintained in our agency are locked up each
night in a specific room set aside for that use. |
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When
such physical copies of your health information are
in use in other parts of the office, they are handled
in such a manner as to prevent casual viewing of that
information. |
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Physical
copies of your referral information which can include
your diagnoses, certain medications such as IV medications
your are currently receiving, and your name, address
and telephone number or other such contact information
held by nurses, therapists, and other providers of care
involved in your treatment are maintained by them in
a manner which precludes their being seen by persons
not in the agency or involved your care. |
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Electronic
copies of your health information are secured in password
protected programs and only transmitted over special
secured telephone lines. |