Notice of Privacy Practices - Summary
Dear Molina Medicare Member:
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.
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.
- To provide for your treatment.
- To pay for your health care.
- To review the quality of the care you get.
- To tell you about your choices for care.
- To run our health plan.
- To use or share PHI for other purposes as required or permitted by law.
- Molina needs your written approval to use or share your PHI for purposes not listed above.
- To look at your PHI.
- To get a copy of your PHI.
- To amend your PHI.
- To ask us to not use or share your PHI in certain ways.
- To get a list of certain people or places we have shared your PHI with.
Molina 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 protects PHI:
- Molina has policies and rules to protect PHI.
- Molina limits who may see PHI. Only Molina Healthcare staff with a need to know PHI may use and share PHI.
- Molina staff is trained on how to protect and secure PHI.
- Molina staff must agree in writing to follow the rules and policies that protect and secure PHI.
- Molina secures PHI in our computers. PHI in our computers is kept private by using firewalls and passwords.
- Keep your PHI private.
- Give you written information, such as this on our duties and privacy practices about your PHI.
- Follow the terms of our Notice of Privacy Practices.
- Call or write Molina and complain.
- Complain to the Department of Health and Human Services.
We will not hold anything against you. Your action would not change your care in any way.