We use and disclose health information about you for your treatment, payment and health care operations.

We may use and disclose your information to a physician or other health care provider providing treament to you.  We may use your health information to provide you with appointment reminders and treatment alternatives. 

For example, a doctor treating you for a broken leg may need to know if you have diabetes becasue diabetes may slow the healing process. Also, the doctor may need to send you and your information, a to a specialist to provide additional care for your broken leg.

We may use and disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you.  For example, we may need to give your insurance company information about your clinic visit and the services your received in order for them to pay us for the service. 

If you are an Indian client, we may disclose your information to the Indian Health Services, who fund services we provide, or pay for, on behalf of Indian clients. 

If you are eligible for Contract Health Services, we may use or disclose your information when we are paying another provider for services he/she provided to you.

We may use and disclose your health information on connection with our health care operations.  Health care operations include quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of health care professionals, evaluating provider performance, conducting training programs, certification, licensing or credentialing activities.  We may use your health information to tell you about health related services, educational activities and program operations that may be of interest to you. 

We may use your health information for business management, general administratiave activities and customer service.  If you are an adult Indian client, we may use your name and address to send you a Voter Information Packet regarding elections of Indian Community Representatives on the UIHS Board of Directors.  We may disclose statistical and demographic information about you when seeking grants wso we can fund some of our programs.  We will remove information that identifies you so others will not be able to identify our specific clients.