132 Federal Notice • To Persons Involved With Your Care. The Claims Administrator may use or disclose your health information to a person involved in your care or who helps pay for your care, such as a family member, when you are incapacitated or in an emergency, or when you agree or fail to object when given the opportunity. If you are unavailable or unable to object, the Claims Administrator will use its best judgment to decide if the disclosure is in your best interests. Special rules apply regarding when the Claims Administrator may disclose health information to family members and others involved in a deceased individual's care. The Claims Administrator may disclose health information to any persons involved, prior to the death, in the care or payment for care of a deceased individual, unless the Claims Administrator is aware that doing so would be inconsistent with a preference previously expressed by the deceased. • For Public Health Activities such as reporting or preventing disease outbreaks to a public health authority. • For Reporting Victims of Abuse, Neglect or Domestic Violence to government authorities that are authorized by law to receive such information, including a social service or protective service agency. • For Health Oversight Activities to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law, such as licensure, governmental audits and fraud and abuse investigations. • For Judicial or Administrative Proceedings such as in response to a court order, search warrant or subpoena. • For Law Enforcement Purposes. The Claims Administrator may disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such as providing limited information to locate a missing person or report a crime. • To Avoid a Serious Threat to Health or Safety to you, another person, or the public, by, for example, disclosing information to public health agencies or law enforcement authorities, or in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. • For Specialized Government Functions such as military and veteran activities, national security and intelligence activities, and the protective services for the President and others. • For Workers' Compensation as authorized by, or to the extent necessary to comply with, state workers compensation laws that govern job-related injuries or illness. • For Research Purposes such as research related to the review of certain treatments or the prevention of disease or disability, if the research study meets federal privacy law requirements. • To Provide Information Regarding Decedents. The Claims Administrator may disclose information to a coroner or medical examiner to identify a deceased person, determine a cause of death, or as authorized by law. The Claims Administrator may also disclose information to funeral directors as needed to carry out their duties. • For Organ Procurement Purposes. The Claims Administrator may use or disclose information to entities that handle procurement, banking or transplantation of organs, eyes or tissue to facilitate donation and transplantation. • To Correctional Institutions or Law Enforcement Officials if you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under the custody of a law enforcement official, but only if needed (1) for the institution to provide you with health care; (2) to protect your health and safety or the health and safety of others; or (3) for the safety and security of the correctional institution. • To Business Associates that perform functions on the Claims Administrator's behalf or provide the Claims Administrator with services if the information is needed for such functions or services. The Claims Administrator's business associates are required, under contract with the Claims Administrator, and according to federal law, to protect the privacy of your information and are not
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