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This section describes how medical information about you may be used/disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
- Under applicable law, we are required to protect the privacy of your individual health information (referred to as Protected Health Information
or PHI). We are also required to provide you with notice of our policies and procedures concerning your PHI and abide by these terms, as
it may be updated from time to time.
- We are permitted to make certain types of disclosures under applicable law for the purposes of treatment, payment, and/or healthercare operations.
Examples of which may include the use of your PHI for dispensing and medication therapy management, providing, coordiniating, or managing healthcare,
physician consultations, for obtaining or providing reimbursment for services, providing the quality assessment and improvement on services, administrative
purposes, and compliance activities.
- We store some of your PHI in electronic computer files which we backup daily, and employ other precautions to safeguard the integrity of your PHI. Although
unlikely, technology failure or computer crash could cause loss of data, but reasonable safeguards are used to prevent this minute possiblity.
- We may contact you to provide refill reminders, health screening, wellness events, inoculations, vaccinations or info regarding alternative treatment options
or other services of interest.
- We may disclose your PHI to your pharmacy plan sponser.
- We may use/disclose your PHI without your authorization when the pharmacy needs to contact a physician/physician's staff and are permitted to without written
authorization from teh individual. We may also use/disclose PHI to another pharmacy if they have your request and consent to transfer pharmacy records to them.
- From time to time, we may employ business associates that assist us who may use, change, or create PHI, but all are required to comply with privacy regulations
on your behalf.
- We may disclose PHI without authorization to comply with Worker's Compensation, Law Enforcement, legal proceedings, public health requirements, health
oversight activities, and as required by law.
- You may ask us to restrict use/disclosure of PHI in treatment, payment, operations, to family/relatives/friends/others involved in your care or payment for your care:
however, we are not required to agree to this request.
- You have the right to request the following regarding your PHI: inspection, copying, amending, correcting, accounting of disclosures, and to recieve a paper
copy of this notice. We may require payment for this request to cover the costs of copying, labor, and postage.
- We may use your name in reference to a prescription and pharmaceutical care services, and you may be required to sign a signature log form to acknowledge
receipt of service, receipt of notice of use/disclosures of PHI as stated herein.
- We may disclose family/friends/relatives/persons identified by you. PHI that is related to payment or patient care. If incapacitated, we will use our judgement
based on teh best interests of your healthcare.
- We reserve the right to change the terms of this notice and make new provisions as needed, and you may receive a copy of any revisions by contacting the above
stated individual.
- If you believe that your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey Building
Building, 200 Independence Ave. SW, Washington DC 20201. You will not be retaliated against filing a complaint.
- You may contact us for further information and complete notice.
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