Specialty Pharmacy Welcome Booklet 2025 | страница 24

� Health Oversight Activities. We may disclose health information about you to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities include, for example, audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure, as well as other activities necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, government benefit programs, compliance with civil rights laws, and compliance with other legal requirements.

� Lawsuits and Disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or other legal dispute, we may disclose your health information in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose your health information in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process from someone involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made to notify you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested. We may disclose health information for judicial or administrative proceedings, as permitted or required by law.

� Law Enforcement. We may release health information for law enforcement purposes as permitted or required by law. These purposes include responding to a court order, warrant, subpoena, summons, or other lawful process; identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person; reporting information about a victim of crime in limited circumstances; reporting a death that may have resulted from criminal conduct; or reporting suspected criminal conduct that occurred on our premises.

� Coroners, Medical Examiners, and Funeral Directors. We may release health information to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. We may also release health information about patients of the hospital to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties.

� Organ and Tissue Donation. If you are an organ, tissue, or eye donor or recipient, we may use or release your health information to organizations that manage organ, tissue, and eye procurement, banking, transportation, and transplantation.

� To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. We may use and disclose your health information when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. Any disclosure, however, would only be to someone able to help prevent the threat.

� Military and Veterans. If you are a member of the U. S. Armed Forces, we may disclose health information about you as required or authorized by military command authorities. We may also disclose health information about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority. We may disclose health information to the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs to determine eligibility for benefits or to coordinate care, if applicable.

� National Security and Intelligence Activities. We may release your health information to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities authorized by law.

� Protective Services for the President and Others. We may disclose your health information to authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the President, other authorized persons, or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations.

� Workers ' Compensation. We may disclose your health information as authorized by law for workers ' compensation or similar programs that provide benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses. These disclosures will be limited to health information related to such work-related injuries or illnesses as required by applicable law. Such disclosures may include providing health information to your employer, if your employer arranged for the health care services provided to you and the information is needed to evaluate or treat a work-related illness or injury, or to comply with workplace medical surveillance laws.

� Inmates or Individuals in Custody. If you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under the custody of a law enforcement official, we may release your health information to the correctional institution or law enforcement official for your health or for the health and safety of other individuals.