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Page 3 of 4 Patient Rights: As a patient, you have a number of rights with respect to the protection of your PHI, including:
- The right to access a copy or inspect your PHI. This means you may come to our offices and inspect and copy most of the medical information about you that we maintain. We will normally provide you with access to this information within 30 days of your request. We may also charge you a reasonable fee for you to copy any medical information that you have the right to access. In limited circumstances, we may deny you access to your medical information, and certain types of denials may be appealed. We have available forms to request PHI and will provide a written response if we deny you access and let you know your appeal rights. If you wish to inspect and copy your medical information, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
- The right to amend your PHI. You have the right to ask us to amend written medical information that we may have about you. We will generally amend your information within 60 days of your request and will notify you when we have amended the information. We are permitted by law to deny your request to amend your medical information only in certain circumstances, such as when we believe the information you have asked us to amend is correct. You can appeal our denial of your request to amend the information. If you wish to amend the medical information that we have about you, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
- The right to request an accounting of our use and disclosures of your PHI. You may request an accounting from us of certain disclosures of your medical information that we have made in the last six years prior to the date of your request. We are not required to give you an accounting of information we have used or disclosed for purposes of treatment, payment or health care operations, or of uses or disclosures made prior to April 14, 2003. If you wish to request an accounting of the medical information about you that we have used or disclosed, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
- The right to request that we restrict the uses and disclosures of your PHI. You have the right to restrict how we use and disclose your medical information that we have about you for treatment, payment or health care operations, or to restrict the information that is provided to family, friends and other individuals involved in your health care. But if you request a restriction and the information you asked us to restrict is needed to provide you with emergency treatment, then we may use the PHI or disclose the PHI to a health care provider to provide you with emergency treatment. Federal Heights Fire Department is not required to agree to any restrictions you request, but any restrictions agreed to by Federal Heights Fire Department are binding on Federal Heights Fire Department.
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