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.
Corner Canyon Health Centers (“Corner Canyon”) is committed to keeping your personal health information confidential and secure. We will protect your Protected Health Information, or PHI, by maintaining privacy policies and procedures that meet or exceed the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (“HIPAA”).
This Notice describes how we may use and disclose PHI about you. This Notice also describes how you may access your own PHI and other rights you have under HIPAA. Please note that we may change our privacy practices and this Notice at any time. If you have any questions about this Notice or your rights under HIPAA, please contact our HIPAA Privacy Officer at the address or phone number listed at the end of this Notice.
PHI is information that may identify you and relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services that you receive and how you pay for them. Related information that might identify you in connection with your PHI is also protected. This information would include, for example, your Social Security number, your telephone number or other identification numbers assigned to you.
Corner Canyon will usually use or disclose your PHI only for purposes of promoting quality treatment, securing insurance reimbursement for your care, and conducting our own company internal operations. Here are more specific descriptions of how we may use or disclose PHI: Treatment. We may use and disclose your PHI to help deliver, coordinate and manage your health care and related services. For example, we may consult with your physician in connection with custom products he or she may prescribe specifically for you or if questions arise in the course of using our products in providing care to you but only if sharing your PHI is necessary under the circumstances. Payment. We generally do not provide health care products for which patients make payments directly. While we expect such circumstances to arise infrequently, we may nevertheless use and disclose your PHI, as necessary, to obtain payment for the health care products we provide or facilitate. Operations. We may use and disclose your PHI in order to support our business activities. These activities may include, but are not limited to, quality assessment and improvement activities, business planning, management and general administrative activities. For example, we may use your PHI to assess the performance of our products, determine how to improve our products, resolve complaints, and assess the performance of our staff. Please note the above examples are for illustration purposes only since we cannot describe every possible use or disclosure.
Corner Canyon may use or disclose your PHI for other reasons in order to provide you with the best service possible and to comply with various public health and legal requirements. These reasons include:
Business Associates. Some activities are performed for us, or on our behalf, by our business associates. For example, our business associates may include contracted educators, third party administrators and accounting firms. We have contracts with our business associates requiring them to protect your PHI as required by law.
Individuals involved in your care or payment for your care. Unless you instruct us otherwise, we may release PHI about you to a family member, relative, or personal friend, or any other person identified by you. We will disclose only your PHI which is relevant to the person’s involvement with your health care or payment.
Education and Information. While we do not typically contact individual patients regarding our products, we may use or disclose your PHI to inform you about health-related benefits and services that we provide and that we think may be of interest to you, or to send you information relating to custom products that we make for you under your physician’s orders.
Government Agencies. We may disclose your PHI to the Food and Drug Administration or other agencies in the US Department of Health and Human Services, or share information with parties regulated under the jurisdiction of the these agencies, for purposes of complying with federal drug and medical device laws and other federal laws regulating delivering and paying for health care products and services.
Public Health. As required by law, we may disclose PHI about you to public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability.
Law Enforcement. We may disclose PHI about you for law enforcement purposes as required by law or in response to a valid subpoena or other legal process.
Health oversight activities. We may disclose PHI about you to an oversight agency as required by law. Oversight activities may include audits, investigations, and inspections related to our business and for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with state and federal laws.
Judicial and administrative proceedings. If you are involved in a lawsuit or dispute, we may disclose PHI about you in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose PHI about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by another party involved in the dispute, but only if we are satisfied that efforts are first made to tell you about the request or to obtain a court order protecting the PHI.
Workers Compensation. We may disclose PHI about you as authorized by and as necessary to comply with laws relating to workers compensation or similar programs.
Research. We may disclose PHI about you to researchers when the research has been approved by an institutional review board or privacy board that has determined there are established protocols to protect the privacy of your information and waives the individual authorization requirements under HIPAA. We may also release to researchers a “limited data set”, as permitted by HIPAA, consisting of data stripped of your name and most other identifiers.
To avert a serious threat to health or safety. We may use and disclose PHI about you when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of another person, which may include disease outbreaks, product recalls or identified threats to a particular person.
Coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors. We may release PHI about you to a coroner or medical examiner, when necessary to identify a deceased person or determine cause of death.
Organ or tissue procurement. Consistent with applicable law, we may disclose PHI about you to an organ procurement organization or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or transplantation of organs for the purpose of tissue donation and transplant.
Victims of Abuse. We may disclose PHI about you to a government authority if we reasonably believe that you are a victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence.
National security. We may release PHI about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence and other national security activities authorized by law. This may include disclosures necessary for the protection of government officials and foreign dignitaries.
Military and veterans. If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release PHI about you as required by military command authorities for activities they deem necessary for their military mission.
Correctional institutions. If you are or become an inmate of a correctional institution, we may disclose PHI to the institution or its agents when necessary for your health or the health and safety of others.
Corner Canyon will obtain your written authorization before using or disclosing PHI about you for any purposes other those described above, or otherwise permitted or required by law. You may also authorize others (e.g., family members) to act on your behalf, including controlling your PHI. Parents and guardians will generally have authorization over the PHI of minors under their care.
You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time. Upon receipt of your written revocation, we will stop using or disclosing PHI about you, except to the extent we have already taken action in reliance on your authorization. To revoke an authorization, please send your request in writing with a copy of the authorization being revoked (or, if not available, a detailed description of the authorization including the date) to our HIPAA Privacy Officer at the address below.
You have certain rights with respect to your personal PHI. If you have any questions about how to exercise these rights, please contact our HIPAA Privacy Officer, and we will guide you through our procedures. You have the right to:
As described in this Notice, Corner Canyon has the following obligations under the law with respect to protecting your privacy:
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated in any way, you may file a complaint in writing with our HIPAA Privacy Officer. We will attempt to resolve your complaint promptly. You also have the right to file a complaint with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint under any circumstances.
This Notice is effective November 30, 2017.
Any questions or concerns relating to Corner Canyon Recover’s privacy policies and practices should be directed to our HIPAA Privacy Officer: HIPPA Privacy Officer Corner Canyon Health Centers, LLC 1450 E. Pioneer Rd. Draper, Ut 84020 USA Telephone: (+1) 801.994.1849