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| Notice of Privacy Practices |
| Read the full Notice of Privacy
Practices |
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| Your Privacy |
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| Dear Molina Healthcare Member: |
| Your privacy is important to us. We respect and protect your privacy. Molina
Healthcare uses and shares your information to provide you with health
benefits. Molina Healthcare wants to let you know how your information is used
or shared. |
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| PHI stands for these words, protected health information. PHI means health
information that includes your name, member number or other identifiers, and is
used or shared by Molina Healthcare. |
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| Why does Molina Healthcare use or share your PHI? |
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To provide for your treatment |
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To pay for your health care |
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To review the quality of the care you get |
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To tell you about your choices for care |
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To run our health plan |
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To share PHI as required or permitted by law |
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| What are your privacy rights? |
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To look at your PHI |
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To get a copy of your PHI |
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To amend your PHI |
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To ask us to not use or share your PHI in certain ways |
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To get a list of certain people or places we have given your PHI |
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| How does Molina Healthcare protect your PHI? |
| Molina Healthcare uses many ways to protect PHI across our health
plan. This includes PHI in written word, spoken word or PHI in a computer.
Below are some ways Molina Healthcare protects PHI: |
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Molina Healthcare has policies and rules to protect PHI. |
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Molina Healthcare limits who may see PHI. Only Molina Healthcare staff with a
need to know PHI may use and share PHI. |
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Molina Healthcare staff is trained on how to protect and secure PHI. |
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Molina Healthcare staff must agree in writing to follow the rules and polices
that protect and secure PHI. |
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Molina Healthcare secures PHI in our computers. PHI in our computers is kept
private by using firewalls and passwords. |
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| What must Molina Healthcare do by law? |
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Keep your PHI private. |
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Give you written information such as this on our duties and privacy practices
about your PHI. |
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Follow the terms of the enclosed Notice of Privacy Practices |
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| What can you do if you feel your privacy rights have not been
protected? |
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Call or write Molina Healthcare and complain. |
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Complain to the Department of Health and Human Services. |
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| We will not hold anything against you. Your action would not change your health
benefits in any way. |
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| The above is only a summary. Please read the enclosed Notice
of Privacy Practices. The Notice has more information about how we use and
share your PHI. |
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We will be happy to answer your questions as a member of Molina Healthcare.
You may call our Member Services Department at
1-505-342-4681
or
1-800-580-2811. |
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| The above is only a summary,
you may also
read the full Notice of Privacy
Practices. |
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