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| The Cancer Detection Section (CDS) saves lives by preventing and reducing the devastating effects of cancer for all Californians through early detection, diagnosis and treatment, with special emphasis on the underserved. |
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| The Cancer Detection Section protects your personal
health information. As required by the federal regulations known as the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), we are providing
our clients with control over access to their health information. |
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The Cancer Detection Section – including Cancer
Detection Programs: Every Woman Counts – must keep your health information
private. We get information about you when you apply for services, and when
doctors, clinics, and others bill us for your care. We also get medical
information on your treatment when we approve your care.
****IMPORTANT****
THE CANCER DETECTION SECTION DOES NOT HAVE COMPLETE
COPIES OF YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS. IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT, GET A COPY OF, OR
CHANGE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR DOCTOR, CLINIC, OR HEALTH
CARE PLAN.
You can use the forms below to:
Ask CDS questions about your health information, or
Request CDS to take some action regarding your health information.
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Request for Access to
Protected Health Information
See and get a copy of the information the
Cancer Detection Section has about you. The Cancer Detection Section
has information about your eligibility, your health care bills,
and some medical information that we use to approve services for
you or manage your health care. You may need to pay a fee for the
costs of copying and mailing records. We may keep you from seeing
all or parts of your records when the law allows. If we do, we will
give you information on how to appeal our decision. |
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Request for Access to
Protected Health Information by Parent, Guardian, or Personal Representative
Allow someone else to see and get a copy of
the information the Cancer Detection Section has about you. |
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Request for Release
of Protected Health Information
Request that a copy of the information the
Cancer Detection Section has about you be released to someone
you designate. The Cancer Detection Section has information
about your eligibility, your health care bills, and some medical
information that we use to approve services for you or manage
your health care. You may need to pay a fee for the costs of
copying and mailing records. We may not release all or parts of
your records when the law allows. If we do, we will give you
information on how to appeal our decision. |
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Request to Restrict Use
and Disclosure of Protected Health Information
Ask us not to use or share your personal health
care information. |
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Request to Restrict Use
and Disclosure of Protected Health Information
by Parent, Guardian, or Personal Representative
Allow someone else to ask us not to use or
share your personal health care information. |
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Confidential Communication
Request
Ask us to contact you only in writing or at
a different address, post office box, or telephone number. We will
accept reasonable requests when necessary to protect your safety.
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Request for an Accounting
of Disclosures of Protected Health Information
Request a list of the times when we have shared
your health information after April 14, 2003. The list will tell
you what information we shared, with whom, when, and for what reasons.
The list will not say when we gave information to you, or when we
gave out information with your permission, or when we shared information
for treatment, payment, or health care operations. |
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Request for an Accounting
of Disclosures of Protected Health Information
by Parent, Guardian, or Personal Representative
Allow someone else to request a list of the
times when we have shared your health information after April 14,
2003. |
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Request to Amend Protected
Health Information
Ask CDS to change your records if you
believe some information we have about you is wrong. |
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Request to Amend Protected
Health Information by Parent, Guardian,
or Personal Representative
Allow someone else to ask to change the records
if you believe some information we have about you is wrong. |
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Email the
. The Cancer Detection Section email privacy statement may be reviewed
here.
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