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Notice
of Privacy Practices
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
Pittsboro
Fire Department is required by law to maintain the privacy of
certain confidential health care information, known as Protected
Health Information or PHI, and to provide you with a notice of our
legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI. Pittsboro Fire Department is also required to abide by the
terms of the version of this Notice currently in effect.
Use and disclosure of PHI: Pittsboro Fire Department may use PHI for the purposes of
treatment, payment, and health care operations, in most cases
without your written permission. Examples of our use of your PHI:
For Treatment: This includes such things as obtaining verbal and written information about your medical condition and treatment from you as well from others, such as doctors and nurses who give orders to allow us to provide treatment to you. We may file your PHI to other health care providers involved in your treatment, and may transfer your PHI to other health care providers involved in your treatment, and may transfer you PHI via radio or telephone to the hospital or dispatch center.
For Payment: This includes any activities we must undertake in order to get reimbursed for the services we provide to you, including such things as submitting bills to insurance companies, making medical necessity determination and collecting outstanding accounts.
For Health care operations: This includes quality assurance activities, licensing, and training programs to ensure that our personnel meet out standards of care and follow established policies and procedures as well as certain other management functions.
Use and Disclosure of PHI Without Your Authorization. Pittsboro Fire Department is permitted to use PHI without your written authorization, or opportunity to object, in certain situations, and unless prohibited by more stringent state law, including:
For
the treatment, payment or health care operations activities of
another health care provider who treats you.
For
health care and legal compliance activities.
To
a family member, other relatives, or close personal friend or
other individual involved in your care if we obtain your
verbal agreement to do so or if we give you an opportunity to
object to such a disclosure and you do not raise an objection,
and in certain other circumstances where we are unable to
obtain your agreement and believe the disclosure is in your
best interests.
To
a public health authority in certain situations as required by
law (such as to report abuse, neglect or domestic violence)
For
health oversight activities including audits or government
investigations, inspections, disciplinary proceedings, and
other administrative or judicial actions undertaken by the
government (or their contractors) by law to oversee the health
care system.
For
judicial and administrative proceedings as required by a court
or administrative order, or in some cases in response to a
subpoena or other legal process.
For
law enforcement activities in limited, such as when responding
to a warrant.
For
military, national defense and security and other special
government functions.
To
avert a serious threat to the health and safety of a person or
the public at large.
For
workers’ compensation purposes, and in compliance with
workers’ compensation laws.
To
coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors for
identifying a deceased person, determining cause of death, or
carrying on their duties as authorized by law.
If
you are an organ donor, we may release health information to
organizations that handle organ procurement or organ, eye or
tissue transplantation or to an organ donation bank, as
necessary to facilitate organ donation and transplantation.
For
research projects, but this will be subject to strict
oversight and approvals
We
may also use or disclose health information about you in a way
that does not personally identify you or reveal who you are.
Any
other use or disclosure of PHI, other than those listed above will
only be made with your written authorization. You may revoke your authorization at any time, in writing,
except to the extent that we have already used or disclosed
medical information in reliance on that authorization.
Patient
Rights: As a patient,
you have a number of rights with respect to your PHI, including:
