NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
Swagrass Health Care Solutions
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.
his 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 privacy commitment Thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you. In the normal course of doing business – providing medical care to you – Swagrass Global Health Benefits (“SGHB”) creates records about you and the treatment and services we provide to you.
The information we collect is called Protected Health Information (“PHI”). We take our obligation to keep your PHI secure and confidential very seriously.
We are required by federal and state law to protect the privacy of your PHI and to provide you with this Notice about how we safeguard and use it and to notify you following a breach of your unsecured PHI.
When we use or give out (“disclose”) your PHI, we are bound by the terms of this Notice.
This Notice applies to all electronic or paper records we create, obtain, and/or maintain that contain your PHI.
How we protect your privacy We understand the importance of protecting your PHI. We restrict access to your PHI to authorized workforce members who need that information for your treatment, for payment purposes and/or for health care operations. We maintain technical, physical and administrative safeguards to ensure the privacy of your PHI.
To protect your privacy, only authorized and trained workforce members are given access to our paper and electronic records and to non-public areas where this information is stored. Workforce members are trained on topics including: › Privacy and data protection policies and procedures including how paper and electronic records are labeled, stored, filed and accessed. › Technical, physical and administrative safeguards in place to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI.
Our corporate Privacy Office monitors how we follow the policies and procedures, and educates our organization on this important topic.
How we use and disclose your PHI Uses of PHI without your authorization We may disclose your PHI without your written authorization if necessary while providing your health benefits.
We may disclose your PHI for the following purposes: › Treatment: – To share with hospital staff, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, optometrists, health educators and other health care professionals and personnel at health care facilities so they can determine your plan of care. – To help you obtain services and treatment you may need – for example, to order lab tests and using the results. – To coordinate your health care and related services with a different health care facility or professional.
Swagrass Global HealthCare Privacy Notice
Our privacy commitment Thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you. In the normal course of doing business, we create, obtain, and/or maintain records about you and the services we provide to you.
The information we collect is called Protected Health Information (“PHI”).
We take our obligation to keep your PHI secure and confidential very seriously.
We are required by law to protect the privacy of your PHI and to provide you with this Notice about how we safeguard and use it, and notify you following a breach of your unsecured PHI. When we use or give out (“disclose”) your PHI, we are bound by the terms of this Notice.
This Notice applies to all electronic or paper records we create, obtain, and/or maintain that contain your PHI.
How we protect your privacy We understand the importance of protecting your PHI.
We restrict access to your PHI to authorized workforce members who need that information for your treatment, for payment purposes and/or for health care operations.
We maintain technical, physical and administrative safeguards to ensure the privacy of your PHI. To protect your privacy, only authorized and trained workforce members are given access to our paper and electronic records and to non-public areas where this information is stored. Swagrass HealthCare Workforce members are trained on topics including: › Privacy and data protection policies and procedures including how paper and electronic records are labeled, stored, filed and accessed. › Technical, physical and administrative safeguards in place to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI.
Our corporate Privacy Office monitors how we follow the policies and procedures, and educates our organization on this important topic.
How we use and disclose your PHI Uses of PHI without your authorization We may disclose your PHI without your written authorization if necessary while providing your health benefits.
We may disclose your PHI for the following purposes: › Treatment. – To share with nurses, doctors, pharmacists, optometrists, health educators and other health care professionals so they can determine your plan of care. – To help you obtain services and treatment you may need – for example, ordering lab tests and using the results. – To coordinate your health care and related services with a different health care facility or professional.
