Notice of Privacy Practices for Health Information from  
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE GROUP, LLC.

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.

We, understand the personal nature of your medical information, and are committed to protecting it. Your protected health information, “PHI,” includes information that can be used to identify you that we have created or received about your past, present, or future health condition, the provision of health care to you, or the past, present or future payment of health care for you.

I.   Where did we obtain PHI about you? You provided us with most of your PHI on your application for health care services. We may also obtain PHI from a provider, such as a hospital, or insurance company when we obtain your medical records in order to process your medical bills.

II.    How we may Use and Disclose Your PHI.

A.    Uses and Disclosures of PHI for treatment, health care operations, and payment purposes — no authorization necessary. We are entitled to use and disclose your PHI without an authorization from you for treatment, health care operations, and payment purposes. For example:  

Payment We may use or disclose your PHI to pay your covered medical bills, to ensure proper billing, and to process claims for services provided to you by doctors or hospitals.  

B.    Uses and Disclosures of PHI for other purposes — no authorization necessary. It is unnecessary for us to have an authorization from you to use and disclose your PHI to you, for public health purposes, auditing purposes, research studies, detecting health care fraud and abuse, emergencies or when otherwise required by law.

C.    Uses and Disclosures that Require an Authorization. In any other situation, we will ask for your written authorization before disclosing PHI about you. If you choose to sign an authorization to disclose information, you can later revoke that authorization to stop any future uses and disclosures to the extent that we have not already taken any action in reliance upon the authorization or if applicable, during a contestability period.

III.   What can you expect from us? We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your PHI, and to provide you with this notice about our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI. We reserve the right to change the terms of this notice, if necessary, and to make any new notice provisions effective to all PHI that we maintain. A revised notice will be mailed to you if one is created.

IV.  Your Rights with respect to your PHI

A.    Inspect and Copy. In most cases, you have a right to inspect and obtain a copy of your PHI that we have in our possession. A request to inspect or copy PHI must be in writing. Your record may include such things as your application, medical records from your provider, correspondence we have with you, and payment history. If you request copies, we will charge you $0.25 (twenty-five cents) for each page, $8.00 per hour for staff time to locate and copy your medical information, and postage if you want the copies mailed to you.

B.    Correct or Update. You have a right to request that we change or correct any of your PHI on documents we created. Your request must be in writing, and include reasons that support your request to amend. We will evaluate your request and try to do that which you ask but we are not required to make those changes. We will not change or correct any information on documents that we did not create (e.g., your medical records), are not a part of our records, are not allowed by law to be disclosed, or if the information is accurate and complete. We will respond to you within 30 days upon receipt of your request

C.    Restriction Request. You have a right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your PHI. A request to restrict must be in writing. We will evaluate each request but we are not required to agree with your request You may not limit the uses and disclosures that we are legally required or allowed to make.

 In addition to the Federal Government requirements this Notice describes, we will comply with your states laws privacy requirements when required to do so.