Providing compassionate care in New York and Michigan
Providing compassionate care in New York and Michigan
THIS NOTICE IS INTENDED TO DESCRIBE HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND/OR DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact Noah Greenfield, Chief Compliance Officer, at compliance@markshhc.com, 3839 Flatlands Ave Suite 208 – Brooklyn, NY 11234 or call 844-713-0004.
Each time you visit a hospital, physician, or each time a healthcare professional visits your home a record of your visit is made. Typically, this record contains your symptoms, examination and test results, diagnosis, treatment and a plan for future care or treatment. This information often referred to as your health or medical record, serves as a basis for planning your care and treatment and serves as a means of communication among the many health professionals who contribute to your care. Understanding what is in your record and how your health information is used helps you to ensure its accuracy, better understand who, what, when, where and why others may access your health information, and make more informed decisions when authorizing disclosure to others.
Unless otherwise required by law, your health record is the physical property of the healthcare practitioner or facility that compiled it, but the information belongs to you. You have the right to:
For certain health information, you can tell the Company your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions. In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:
If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
In these cases, we never share your information unless you give us written permission:
*The Company does not (i) create or manage a hospital directory, or (ii) create or maintain psychotherapy notes.
We will use your health information for treatment:
Information obtained by the assessment professional will be recorded in your record and used to determine the course of treatment that should work best for you. By way of example, members of your healthcare team will then record the actions they took, their observations and education provided. We will also provide other practitioners involved with your care with copies of various reports that should assist them in treating you as well as enabling your physician to provide orders for your homecare.
We will use your health information for payment:
Your information will be used and shared to bill and obtain payment for services provided. By way of example, a bill may be sent to you or a third-party payer. The information on or accompanying the bill may include information that identifies you, as well as your diagnosis, services provided, and supplies used. Outside collection agencies may also be utilized.
We will use your health information to run our Company:
We may use and disclose health information in order to facilitate regular healthcare operations, to provide quality care to all patients, and to contact you when necessary.
Examples include quality assessment and improvement activities. Activities designed to improve health or reduce healthcare costs. Protocol development, case management and care coordination. Employee performance and evaluation. Training programs include those in which students, trainees or practitioners in healthcare learn under supervision. Accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities. Review and auditing, including compliance reviews, medical reviews, legal services and compliance programs. Business planning and development. Patient satisfaction surveys. In coordination of emergency and disaster planning and implementation.
Business Associates:
There may be some services provided in our Company through contracts with Business Associates. Examples may include therapy services, laboratory tests, supplies, and audit services. When these services are contracted, we may disclose some or all your health information to our Business Associate so they can perform the business we've asked them to do. To protect your health information, we require the Business Associate to safeguard your information
How else can we use or share your health information?
We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways – usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes. For more information see: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index.html.
Research:
We may use or disclose information to researchers when a review board that has reviewed the research proposal, and established protocols to ensure the privacy of your health information has approved their research.
Workers compensation:
We may disclose health information to the extent authorized by state or other laws and to the degree necessary to comply with those laws relating to workers compensation or other similar laws.
Public health and safety:
As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health or legal authorities charged with tracking birth and deaths, as well as preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability, reporting adverse reactions to medications, reporting suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence, and preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone's health or safety.
Comply with the law:
We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we're complying with federal privacy law
Law enforcement and other government requests:
We may use or disclose health information about you for law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official, with health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law, and for special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services.
Respond to lawsuits and legal actions:
We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
Work with a medical examiner or funeral director:
We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.
Respond to organ and tissue donation requests:
We can share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.
Use and disclose information to other providers, including affiliated providers of Company, to avail me of certain healthcare items or services, including care management services (“Healthcare Services”).
We can use or share health information, including PHI and disclose it to (i) Company's Coordinator, (ii) such of Company employees/independent contractors as the Company may select, and (iii) other providers, including providers affiliated with the Company, such as Cocoon Care Management and their agents, and Cocoon Health and their agents, in connection with the Healthcare Services, including without limitation, to determine whether I am an appropriate candidate for Healthcare Services and to obtain payment for the same.
Our Responsibilities:
This notice will be prominently posted in the office and on our website. Patient will be provided a hard copy.
We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our web site.
Effective Date of Notice: 9/21/24