2016-698 Emergency Svc - North State Medical Transport - Application for Services Franchise by Ordinance

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pursuant to an audit request, we must make sure our request covers only the minimum necessary amount of information needed to accomplish the purpose of the request. Holder of PHI Purpose of Request f Information Reasonably Skilled Nursing To have adequate patient records to treat Patient face sheets,discharge Facilities the patient,determine medical necessity summaries, Physician Certification for service,and to properly bill for services Statements and Statements of Medical provided Necessity, Mobility Assessments Hospitals To have adequate patient records to treat Patient face sheets,discharge the patient, determine medical necessity summaries,Physician Certification for service,and to properly bill for services Statements and Statements of Medical provided Necessity, Mobility Assessments Mutual Aid To have adequate patient records to treat Patient care reports Ambulance or the patient,conduct joint billing Paramedic Services operations for patients mutually treated/transported by the Company PHI Requests to North State Medical Transport from Other Parties North State Medical Transport will make reasonable efforts to release only the minimum amount of PHI that is necessary to accomplish the actual purpose of a request from a third party. Incidental Disclosures North State Medical Transport understands that there will be times when there are incidental disclosures about PHI in the context of caring for a patient. HIPAA was not intended to impede common healthcare practices that are essential in providing healthcare to the individual. Incidental disclosures are inevitable, but these will typically occur in radio or face- to-face conversations between healthcare providers, or when PHI is able to be viewed by others, despite reasonable efforts to protect the PHI from view. But all personnel must be sensitive to avoiding incidental disclosures to other healthcare providers and others who do not have a need to know the information. North State Medical Transport staff should be attentive to who is within earshot when making verbal statements about a patient's health information, and follow some of these common sense procedures for avoiding accidental or inadvertent disclosures: Measures to Protect PHI 1. Verbal PHI. Staff members should only discuss PHI with those who are involved in the care of the patient, regardless of physical location. When discussing PHI with patients, staff members should make sure that there are no other persons (including other North