HIPAA Information
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.
This notice of privacy describes how St. Tammany Fire District 3 may use and disclose your protected health information (PHI) to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations. (TPO) and or other purposes that are permitted or required by law. It also describes your rights to access and control your protected information. "Protected health information" is information about you, including demographic information, that may identify you and that relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services.
Uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information
Your protected health information may be used and disclosed by St. Tammany Fire District 3 that are involved in your care and treatment for the purpose of providing health care services to you, to pay your health care bills, to support the operation of the St. Tammany Fire District 3 and other use required by law.
Treatment: St. Tammany Fire District 3 will use and disclose your protected health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your health care and any related services. This includes the coordination of management of your health care by third party.
Payment: Your protected health information will be used, as needed, to obtain payment for your health care services.
Healthcare operations: St. Tammany Fire District 3 may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information in order to support the business activities of St. Tammany Fire District 3. The activities include, but are not limited to quality assessment of activities, employee review activities, training, licensing, and conducting or arranging of other business activities.
We may use or disclose your protected health information in the following situations without your permission. These situations include, but are not limited to; as required by law, public health issues as required by law, communicable diseases, health oversight, abuse or neglect, food and drug administration requirements, legal proceedings, law enforcement, coroners, funeral directors, organ donation research, criminal activity, military activity, and nation security, workers compensation, inmates, requires uses an disclosures.
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Under law, St, Tammany Fire District 3 must make disclosures to you and when required by the Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services to investigate or determine our compliance with the requirements of section 164.500.
Other permitted and required uses and discloses will me made only with your consent, authorization, or opportunity to object unless required by law.
You may revoke this authorization, at any time, in writing.
Your rights
The following is a statement for your rights with respect to your protected information
>You have the right to inspect and copy your protected health information.
>You have the right to request a restriction to your protected health information.
>You have the right to request to receive confidential communication from St. Tammany
Fire District 3 by alternative means or at an alternative location. You have the right to
obtain a paper copy of this notice from St. Tammany Fire District 3.
>You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures we have made, if
any, of your protected health information.
St. Tammany Fire District 3 reserves the right to change the terms of our notice off privacy practice and to make the new notice provision effective for all protected information that we maintain at St. Tammany Fire District 3 will post and you may be request a written copy of a revised notice of privacy practices from St. Tammany Fire District 3.
Complaints
You may complain to us or to the Secretary of Health and Human Services if you believe you privacy has been violated by St. Tammany Fire District 3. You may file a complaint with us by notifying our privacy contact of your complaint. We will not retaliate against you for filling a complaint.
Send HIPAA complaints to:
PO Box 849
Lacombe, LA 70445
(985) 882-5977
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