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Health Care, Inc. Privacy Statement
How We Care for Your Personal
Information
- We do not sell personal information
about you to anyone.
- We do not share medical information
with any third parties unless you have
given us
your consent or unless required or permitted
by law.
- Your personal information is restricted
to employees who need access in order
to
provide service to you. Employees who
deal with personal information are
trained to adhere to strict confidentiality
standards and any employee who
knowingly violates these standards is
subject to disciplinary action.
- We maintain physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards designed to protect
personal information about our members.
Information We Collect:
In order to process applications and provide
health plan services, we collect information
that may not be publicly available. Examples
of this information are member names and
addresses, social security numbers, and,
in some instances, health status.
How we Share Information:
We share personal information with outside
companies and other third parties only in
limited circumstances. We use outside companies
to perform services such as printing, marketing
our services, and processing internal transactions.
We may disclose information about you in
order to complete these transactions on
your behalf. We select those we work with
very carefully, and we generally provide
only such member information as is absolutely
essential to complete the required work.
When we do share information, we require
that it be kept confidential and that it
be used only as we have authorized –
it may not be shared with others without
our express consent.
We share personal information with government
agencies when required by law to do so.
Correcting Information:
We take care to ensure that the personal
information we collect is accurately recorded
and is kept current. We have internal procedures
that permit us to correct any errors that
are brought to our attention. Please contact
us if you identify incorrect information.
You may contact us as described in your
“Evidence of Coverage” booklet
or at the “Contact
Us” section of the Universal Health
Care Website (www.UnivHC.com)
or by calling Customer Service at 1-866-690-4UHC
(4842); or for the hearing or speech
impaired call 1-877-486-2048.
Annual Notice:
We want you to stay informed about our
handling of your personal information. We
plan on communicating with you annually
about our privacy policies and procedures.
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