Connected Care Consent to Care

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Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

Claims data may be shared with Practice for health care operations

The signer acknowledges that their claims data may be shared with Practice for health care operations, subject to privacy and security protections including HIPAA.

Supporting quotations

my claims data may be shared with Practice for health care operations, subject to privacy and security protections, including HIPAA

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Purpose given: health care operations.
  • Subject to privacy and security protections, “including” HIPAA (the list is not limited to HIPAA).

Not stated here

  • The sentence does not say who shares the claims data.
  • The kinds of claims data are not specified.

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

Practice may share care updates with the signer’s other clinicians

The signer authorizes Practice to share care updates and related medical information with their primary care physician or referring clinician for treatment purposes and as otherwise required by the ACCESS Program, and to share that information with other health care providers for treatment purposes. The signer separately consents to Practice’s use and disclosure of protected health information in line with its HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and applicable law.

Supporting quotations

I authorize Practice to share care updates and related medical information with my primary care physician or referring clinician for treatment purposes and as otherwise required by the ACCESS Program, and to share such information with other health care providers for treatment purposes
I consent to Practice’s use and disclosure of my protected health information in accordance with its HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and applicable law

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Sharing with the primary care physician or referring clinician is for treatment purposes and as otherwise required by the ACCESS Program.
  • Sharing with other health care providers is for treatment purposes.
  • Use and disclosure of protected health information is also tied to Practice’s HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and applicable law.

Not stated here

  • What the ACCESS Program requires Practice to share is not described in this text.
  • The Notice of Privacy Practices is linked but its text is not supplied in this document.

Cross-references

Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice

Data-sharing preferences are changed through 1-800-Medicare, and CMS may still share limited data

The signer may call 1-800-Medicare to change their data-sharing preferences. Even if the signer declines data sharing, CMS may still engage in limited sharing of their data for care coordination and quality improvement activities and for population-based activities relating to improving health or reducing health care costs.

Supporting quotations

If at any time I wish to modify my data-sharing preferences, I may call 1-800-Medicare to do so
even if I decline data-sharing, CMS may still engage in limited sharing of my data for care coordination and quality improvement activities and population-based activities relating to improving health or reducing health care costs

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The method named is a call to 1-800-Medicare.
  • The exception is sharing by CMS, limited to care coordination, quality improvement and population-based health or cost-reduction activities.

Not stated here

  • What “limited sharing” covers is not defined.
  • The text does not say whether declining data sharing changes sharing by Practice described elsewhere in the Consent.