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Please check your patient privacy notices to be sure you are compliant with the TCCN Membership Participation Agreement. Language required for your practice to submit data to TCCN is included in Exhibit E of your Membership Participant Agreement. If you don’t have the following language in your patient privacy notice, take steps to add it today. Including this language protects your participation in TCCN and helps keep your practice HIPAA compliant.
“[Practice Name] participates in a clinically integrated network known as The Children’s Care Network (TCCN). As a result of this clinical integration, TCCN’s member entities function as an Organized Health Care Arrangement (OHCA) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). TCCN may collect or receive information about your past, present or future health condition to provide health care to you, to receive payment for this health care, or for other TCCN operations.
We participate in one or more health information exchanges (HIEs) and may electronically share your health information, including sensitive information, for treatment, payment, and health care operations purposes with other participants in the HIEs. HIEs allow your health care providers to efficiently access and use your pertinent medical information necessary for treatment and other lawful purposes. If you do not opt-out of this exchange of information, we may provide your health information to the HIEs in which we participate in accordance with applicable law.”
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