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MediEquip Inc. Privacy Policy
Any information collected from you specifically by MediEquip or its employees or agents will be kept strictly confidential and used solely for the purposes of fulfilling your order and enhancing your shopping experience at MediEquip. We will never share any of your information with any other companies or individuals, except as required by any applicable law. Please note, however, as we are a participant in Yahoo! Shopping, you should also read their privacy policy as listed above, which governs information collected by Yahoo! as part of the ordering process and your general shopping experience. If you have any further questions regarding this policy, please don't hesitate to contact us.

MediEquip Medical Information Privacy Practices

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

We may use and disclose Protected Health Information (PHI) about you in order to carry out your treatment, to obtain payment for services rendered to you and to carry out the operations of MediEquip. Examples of how we may use and disclose information about you for providing treatment, obtaining payment and operating are:

Examples of uses and disclosures for treatment
  • We will use your PHI to provide medical equipment or devices.
  • We will disclose your PHI as necessary to the physician who referred you to us.
Examples of uses and disclosures to obtain payment
  • We may submit a claim form to your insurance company containing your name, address, social security number, diagnoses and the medical equipment or devices provided to you.
Examples of uses and disclosures to carry out the operations of the practice
  • MediEquip may audit (read and comment upon) your chart in order to track and improve our performance in making sure that the appropriate equipment was provided.
  • MediEquip's staff may mail you reminders of upcoming health seminars.
We may contact you to provide appointment reminders, information about treatment alternatives or other health related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.

MediEquip may use or disclose PHI about you for other purposes, without your consent, if we are required by law to disclose to government authorities. Such use or disclosure may include:

For uses and disclosures required by law
  • For certain public health activities (such as the reporting of disease)
  • To a government authority authorized to receive reports of abuse, neglect or domestic violence
  • To a health oversight agency for oversight activities authorized by law (audits, licensure, inspections, etc.)
  • For certain judicial and admininistrative proceedings (for example in response to a court order, or to a subpoena, or discovery request)
  • For certain law enforcement purposes (such as grand jury subpoena, request by law official during an investigation)
  • In the provision of care to inmates
  • To victims of a crime
  • For specialized government functions (such as military missions or lawful intelligence, counterintelligence, or national security activities)
  • To comply with worker's compensation laws
  • For identification and location purposes (example - location of patients' room in a hospital
  • Research
  • To a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director, to assist the recipient in performing his or her legal duties
  • To an organ procurement organization in order to facilitate donation or transplantation
  • To prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health and safety of an individual or the public
  • Fundraising (can only use the patient's demographic data and dates of health care)
You have rights regarding your protected health information. You may:
  • Request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of PHI, but we are not required to agree to a requested restriction,
  • Request that you receive confidential communications of PHI,
  • Request to inspect and copy your own PHI,
  • Request that your information be amended,
  • Request an accounting of disclosures of PHI made by the facility in the past six years,
  • Request a paper copy of this notice.
MediEquip is required by law to maintain the privacy of PHI and to provide individuals with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information. MediEquip is required to abide by the terms of this notices and to provide individuals with revisions to the notice.

You may complain to MediEquip or to the Secretary of Health and Human Services if you believe that your privacy rights have been violated. File a complaint with MediEquip in writing with the Privacy/Contact Officer.

We have the right to revise this notice when there are material changes to the uses or disclosures, your rights, our legal rights or other privacy practices stated in this notice. The revision will be effective for all PHI we retain and the revised notice will be posted at MediEquip locations and available on our web site.