Privacy Policy & HIPAA

Stevens Center is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (PHI) and to provide you with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI.

How We May Use and Disclose Health Information

We use and disclose health information for the following purposes:

• Treatment: We may use your PHI to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose your PHI to doctors, nurses, technicians, or other personnel who are involved in taking care of you.
• Payment: We may use and disclose your PHI so that the treatment and services you receive may be billed to and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company, or a third party (such as an MCO or Medicaid).
• Health Care Operations: We may use and disclose your PHI for operations necessary to run our organization and make sure that all of our individuals receive quality care.

Your Rights Regarding Your PHI

You have the following rights regarding the PHI we maintain about you:

• Right to Inspect and Copy
• Right to Amend
• Right to an Accounting of Disclosures
• Right to Request Restrictions
• Right to Request Confidential Communications
• Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice

Changes to This Notice

We reserve the right to change this notice. We reserve the right to make the revised or changed notice effective for health information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. We will post a copy of the current notice in our facilities and on our website.