Patient Records

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), you have several rights with respect to your Protected Health Information(PHI). As a patient, you are entitled to the following rights:

1. Right to access to your PHI – You have the right to inspect and obtain a paper or electronic copy of most of the PHI that we collect and maintain about you. You also have the right to request that we transmit your PHI to a third party.
2. Right to request amendment to your PHI – You have the right to ask us to amend PHI that we maintain about you.
3. Right to request restrictions on uses and disclosures of your PHI – You have the right to request that we restrict how we use and disclose your PHI for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations purposes, or to restrict the information that is provided to family, friends and other individuals involved in your healthcare. However, we are only required to abide by a requested restriction under limited circumstances, and it is generally our policy that we will not agree to any restrictions unless required by law to do so.
4. Right to request an accounting of disclosures of your PHI – You may request an accounting of certain disclosures of your PHI. BRS will provide an accounting of those disclosures that we are required to account for under HIPAA.
5. Right to request confidential communications – You have the right to request that we send your PHI to an alternate location (e.g., somewhere other than your home address) or in a specific manner (e.g., by email rather than regular mail).
6. Right to notice of a breach of unsecured PHI – If we discover that there has been a breach of your unsecured PHI, we will notify you about that breach by first-class mail dispatched to the most recent address that we have on file.

Any request to exercise your rights as a patient should be made by contacting our HIPAA Compliance Officer and by filling out our Records Request form.