Exceptional Situations. The Plan may use or disclose your protected health information in the following situations without your authorization:
? Coroners, Medical Examiners and Funeral Directors. The Plan may release medical information to the coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. The Plan may also release medical information about patients to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties.


? Health Oversight Activities. The Plan may disclose medical information to federal or state agencies that oversee our activities. These activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with civil rights laws. The Plan may disclose protected health information to persons under the Food and Drug Administration’s jurisdiction to track products or to conduct post-marketing surveillance.

? Inmates. If you become an inmate of a correctional institution or fall under the custody of a law enforcement official, the Plan may release medical information about you to the correctional institution or law enforcement official. This release would be necessary for the institution to provide you with health care; to protect your health and safety or the health and safety of others; or for the safety and security of the correctional institution.


? Law Enforcement. The Plan may release medical information in these situations: if asked to do so by law enforcement official in response to a court order, subpoena, warrant, summons, or similar process; to identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person; about the victim of a crime if, under certain limited circumstances and are unable to obtain the person’s agreement; about a death believed may be the result of criminal conduct; about criminal conduct on our premises; and in emergency circumstances to report a crime; the location of the crime or victims or the identity, description or location of the person who committed the crime.


? Lawsuits and Disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or dispute, the Plan may disclose medical information about you in response to a court or administrative order. The Plan may also disclose medical information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.


? Military and Veterans. If you are a member of the armed forces, the Plan may release medical information about you as required by military command authorities. The Plan may also release medical information about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority.


? National Security and Intelligence Activities. The Plan may release medical information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, or other national security activities authorized by law.


? Organ and Tissue Donation. If you are an organ donor, the Plan may release medical information to organizations that handle organ procurement or organ, eye or tissue transplantation or to an organ donation bank, as necessary to facilitate organ or tissue donation and transplantation.


? Protective Services for the President and Others. The Plan may disclose medical information about you to authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the President, other authorized persons or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations.


? Public Health Risks. The Plan may disclose medical information about you for public health activities. These activities generally include the following: to prevent or control disease, injury or disability; to report births and deaths; to report child abuse or neglect; to report reactions to medications or problems with products; to notify people of product recalls, repairs or replacements; to notify a person who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk for contracting or spreading a disease or condition; to notify the appropriate government authority if believed a patient has been the victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence. The Plan will only make this disclosure if you agree or when required or authorized by law.


? Serious Threats. As permitted by applicable law and standards of ethical conduct, the Plan may use and disclose protected health information if, in good faith, believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public.


? Workers’ Compensation. The Plan may release medical information about you for programs that provide benefits for work-related injuries or illness.

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OP, are you really surprised?

...and they swore on the floor of the US Congress in the 1930's that your Social Security Number would never ever ever be used for identification purposes.
They were serious too.

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Bye HIPPA

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Bye HIPPA

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I talked to quite a few patients on what was coming, regarding their health records.  Most didn't believe it.  

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Anyone got a link to this?

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Thank God the only thing my doctor knows about me is age, height, weight and I had a bit of a sinus infection 5 or 6 years ago.  That's all he will ever know. I knew I was not participating in the medical merry-go-round for a reason. If not for a bi-annual physical I have to have, he would never see me unless I was near death.