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» Attention Federal Personnel and EAP Directors!!
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Client Privacy
The following is our firm’s statement of compliance with the “Privacy Rule” of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) as defined by the Office of Civil Rights/Department of Health and Human Services. The entire Privacy Rule, as well as guidance and additional materials, may be found at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa. All clients of O'Connor Associates, Inc are required to read our Privacy Policy and sign an acknowledgement that they have received a copy of that policy, per the compliance requirements of HIPAA. O’Connor Associates, Inc complies fully with the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“Privacy Rule”), a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Privacy Rule standards address the use and disclosure of our individual clients’ health information as well as standards for individuals' privacy rights to understand and control how their health information is used. O’Connor Associates, Inc is considered a “Health Care Provider” under the Privacy Rule because we provide healthcare related services (i.e. direct care management services and consultations) which require the sharing of "protected health information", defined as "individually identifiable health information" under the Rule. O’Connor Associates, Inc must make reasonable efforts to use, disclose, and request (verbally, electronically, or in writing) only the minimum amount of protected health information needed to accomplish our intended purpose in achieving a client service objective. Protected Health Information is information, including demographic data, that relates to the client’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition; the provision of health care to the individual; and the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual. Most importantly, the Privacy Rule does NOT require healthcare providers to obtain written consent to share Protected Health Information; this consent is implied in the treatment relationship. However, a healthcare provider may, at their discretion, require a written authorization from the patient/client in order to share Protected Health Information. O’Connor Associates, Inc may use and disclose Protected Health Information for its own treatment, payment, and health care operations activities. We may disclose PHI for the treatment or payment activities of any health care provider or third party as long as that health care provider and third party have or had a relationship with our client and the Protected Health Informationpertains to the relationship. O’Connor Associates, Inc may disclose protected health information that we believe is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to a person or the public, when such disclosure is made to someone we believe can prevent or lessen the threat (including a target of the threat). |
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