The Fund is required by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which was passed and adopted into federal law on December 28, 2000, to maintain the privacy of PHI about you, provide you with a notice of the Fund’s legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI, and to comply with the terms of the Fund's current notice of privacy practices.
THIS PRIVACY 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.
This Privacy Notice, effective April 14, 2003, describes your rights concerning medical information, known as "Protected Health Information" (PHI), about you and/or your dependents. PHI is information that may identify you and that relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health condition, or payment for your health care. The PHI includes information maintained by the Fund in oral, written or electronic form. The Fund is required by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which was passed and adopted into federal law on December 28, 2000, to maintain the privacy of PHI about you, provide you with a notice of the Fund’s legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI, and to comply with the terms of the Fund's current notice of privacy practices.
The Fund reserves the right to change its privacy practices and this Privacy Notice. Any new Privacy Notice may be effective for all PHI that the Fund maintains about you, including PHI created or maintained in the past. Material changes to the Fund's privacy practices will require that the Fund mail copies of revised Privacy Notices to you and to all past and present participants and beneficiaries for whom the Fund still maintain PHI. Any other person, including dependents of named participants, may receive a copy upon request. Any revised version of this Privacy Notice will be distributed within 60 days of the effective date of any material change to the Fund's policies.