HIPPA Notice

Blessed Hearts Senior Care, LLC complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy and security of medical/health information that is held or transmitted by the Agency whether electronic, paper or oral.

Protected Health Information (PHI) includes:

• a person’s name, address, birth date, age, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address;
• medical records, diagnosis, x-rays, photos, prescriptions, lab work, test results; and,
• billing records, claim data, referral authorizations, explanation of benefits and research records.

PHI may be looked at, given away or shared with others only to carry out your job duties. At all other times, you must protect a client’s information, as if it were your own. You may not use or disclose protected health information, except either as outlined in the Agency’s HPAA Policy or as the individual, who is the subject of the information (or the individual’s personal representative), authorizes in writing. Protected health information may only be disclosed in two situations:

• Individuals (or their personal representatives) request access to their protected health information or request an accounting of disclosures of their PHI. Signed authorization must be obtained from the individuals or their personal representative prior to the disclosure of their PHI.
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is undertaking a compliance investigation, a review or an enforcement action.