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| Notice of Privacy Practices |
| Summary |
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Please click
here to read the full Notice of Privacy Practices.
The Notice has more information about how we use and
share your PHI. |
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| Dear Molina Healthcare Member: |
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| Your privacy is important to us. We respect and protect
your privacy. Molina uses and shares your information
to provide you with health benefits. Molina 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. |
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| Why does Molina 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 our 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 U.S. 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 click
here to read the full 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 toll free 1-800-642-4168. Hearing
impaired call TTY/Ohio Relay Service 1-800-750-0750. |
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| Effective as of November 1, 2005 |
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