Please read this Website Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) in its entirety to understand how Tandigm Health, LLC (“Tandigm”) will handle the privacy of personal information that you provide through the Website. Unless otherwise specified, this Privacy Policy does not describe how Tandigm may handle your personal information in offline settings.
Tandigm may use and disclose the information that you provide through this Website only for purposes permitted or required by law, for purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or for purposes which you might authorize. If you do not wish for Tandigm to use or disclose information that you provide through this Website as described in this Privacy Policy, you should disconnect from this Website. Tandigm may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time to address new functionality or changes to this Website, or to address new issues or changes in law that require changes to this Privacy Policy. Please refer back to the Privacy Policy regularly because your use of the Website signifies that you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
Tandigm also has developed Terms and Conditions of Access describing your responsibilities when using this Website. Please read the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Access carefully. Tandigm may revise and update the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions at any time. Therefore, please periodically review the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Access posted at this Website.
Welcome to the Tandigm Health Website. Our publicly-accessible Website is designed to make it easier for visitors to learn about the services and programs provided by Tandigm. As with all online resources, we appreciate that visitors to our Website are concerned about the privacy of personal information. This Privacy Policy discloses Tandigm’s policy for collecting, using and disseminating information through its Website.
Please note that this Privacy Policy is distinct from Tandigm’s Notice of Privacy Practices (“the Tandigm Notice”), which is a special notice required by a federal privacy law known as “the HIPAA Privacy Rule.” The Tandigm Notice describes how Tandigm uses “individually identifiable health information” collected by Tandigm — both online and offline — to provide services to you and to administer the various programs that Tandigm administers. You can request a copy of the Tandigm Notice of Privacy Practices by calling 215-241-9453. Together, this Privacy Policy and the Tandigm Notice describe how Tandigm uses your individually identifiable health information and personal information collected through this Website. Information you provide to Tandigm in an offline setting is covered by the Tandigm Notice, but is not covered by this Privacy Policy unless otherwise specified in this Policy.
When you visit http://www.tandigmhealth.com, Tandigm may collect and/or track: (1) your home server domain names, your email address, your type of computer, the files downloaded, the search engine used, operating system, and type of web browser; (2) the email address you use when you communicate with Tandigm via email; (3) information knowingly provided by you in online forms, surveys, email, contest entries, and other online submissions (including demographic and personal profile data), and (4) aggregate information on pages accessed by you.
To better serve you, we use “cookies” to customize your browsing experience. Cookies are simple text files stored by your browser, and they provide a method of distinguishing among visitors to our sites. We use “cookies” to store a randomly generated tag on your computer such that when you revisit our sites, we may recognize you by the Internet cookie and customize your experience accordingly. The cookies created on your computer by using our sites do not contain personally identifiable information. You may refuse a cookie, or delete the cookies file from your computer at any time by using any one of a number of widely available methods.
When you access the Website, you may choose to give Tandigm online personal information about you. “Online personal information” is any information or data you provide through this Website that is individually identifiable, such as a name, address, postal address, email address, birth date, phone number, and other personal information, including health information that you voluntarily provide to Tandigm. It also may include other information that we collect about you that is associated with your name or address, such as your email address. You may provide that information to us on our Website, if you email us, or at some other point during your online interaction.
Tandigm may use the online personal information for a number of different reasons, including editorial and feedback purposes, healthcare marketing and promotions, performing a statistical analysis of visitor usage, product development, content improvement, to protect our rights or property, or to customize the content and layout of our site. Aggregate data that does not identify individual users may be used for internal purposes or provided to third parties.
Personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily provide to Tandigm, online or offline, may be added to our databases and used for future communications, which may include Website updates, new products and services, the confirmation of transactions through the website, upcoming events, or health reminders, and for other purposes in accordance with applicable state and federal law.
Online personal information may or may not be individually identifiable health information that is also protected by the federal HIPAA privacy law (“the HIPAA Privacy Rule”). Where online personal information also constitutes individually identifiable health information under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the provisions of this Privacy Rule and the Tandigm Notice also will govern Tandigm’s permitted uses and disclosures of the online personal information.
Unless otherwise authorized by a visitor or required or permitted by law [e.g., disclosure to healthcare oversight agencies, etc. would be permitted and that isn’t stated herein], Tandigm will not sell, rent, license, or disclose personally identifiable information collected through the Tandigm Website to unaffiliated third parties. Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, however, Tandigm is permitted to disclose individually identifiable health information to business associates who perform various functions or provide services on their behalf. To perform these functions or to provide services, business associates will receive, create, maintain, use, or disclose individually identifiable health information that has been provided to or made available to the business associate by Tandigm, but only after we require the business associates to agree in writing to contract terms designed to safeguard your information.
Except as set forth above, Tandigm will not release personally identifiable information to any party unless required to do so by government authorities or legal process in accordance with applicable law, to protect our rights or property, or in conjunction with an acquisition of all or part of our company. Laws that permit disclosure of your personally identifiable information as part of healthcare operations might include activities such as Wellness Programs.
Tandigm Website may include links to other organizations’ websites for your convenience in locating health-related information, services, and products. Please be advised that when you link to these other sites, you are leaving Tandigm’s Website and that these other sites are maintained by organizations over which Tandigm may have no control.
Accordingly, a link on any of these sites does not constitute an endorsement of the content, viewpoint, policies, products, or services provided or advertised on that site. These other third-party sites may have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies or no policy at all. Once you link to a website not maintained by Tandigm, you are subject to any terms and conditions of that site, including, but not limited to any privacy policy. The Tandigm Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Access do not apply to the sites of such other third parties. Tandigm does not guarantee that you will receive an alert that you are leaving a Tandigm Website and linking to other third-party websites. It is your responsibility to determine when you have left the Tandigm Website.
Tandigm has implemented numerous security features to prevent the unauthorized release of, or access to, personal information. For example, all Tandigm employees are required to certify their understanding that personal information is considered confidential, that it is important to safeguard personal information, and that Tandigm will take appropriate action against any employee who fails to acknowledge these facts or adhere to the requisite security standards of conduct.
You should be aware that the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from Tandigm via this site or email cannot be guaranteed. Tandigm is not responsible for the security of information transmitted via the Internet. Visitors who prefer to communicate with Tandigm in another manner other than through our site can email us at Compliance@Tandigm.com.
Visitors may opt out of having certain personally identifiable information, i.e. PHI, used by Tandigm or its affiliates for health-related promotional communications by contacting Tandigm via regular mail or email at the addresses above. This opt-out right does not apply to Tandigm’s collection of the type of web browser of the visitor to Tandigm’s site or the sharing of PHI permitted under the HIPAA Privacy Rule for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations as described above.
Upon request via regular mail or email, Tandigm provides visitors a summary of any personally identifiable information retained by Tandigm regarding the visitor. Visitors may seek to modify, correct, change, or update information that Tandigm has collected by contacting us via regular mail or email at the addresses above. Although you may provide individually identifiable health information on this Website, the information is not a medical record, and is not, under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, considered information we maintain in a designated record set. Such information, however, will be treated as PHI, as discussed in this Privacy Policy and in Tandigm’s Notice.
Tandigm does not attempt to knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. Adults should not assist minors in accessing the Site. When visitors enter personal information on our Website, the visitor is representing to us that he/she is an adult over 18 years old.
To the extent that Tandigm is able to determine the age of visitors by their submissions to or communications with Tandigm’s site, Tandigm will not knowingly (1) collect or post information from individuals under age 18 without their parent’s or guardian’s consent, or (2) provide any personally identifying information collected from children, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever unless otherwise permitted by law.
No information collected through Tandigm’s Website from visitors who identify themselves as children will knowingly be used for any promotional purposes. If there are no age restrictions on a contest that requires registration, and if a child wins, notification and prizes will be sent to the parents or guardians identified in the initial registration process.
Tandigm reserves the right to contact Website visitors regarding account status and changes to the Privacy Policy or any other policies or agreements relevant to those who visit the Website.
Tandigm reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Consequently, you should refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly as it might be amended from time to time.
Tandigm Health (“Tandigm”) provides you with access to its Website subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Access (“Terms and Conditions”).
We may update these Terms and Conditions at any time and without notice. Unless stated otherwise, changes will be effective when they are posted on our website at http://www.tandigmhealth.com.
By logging on to the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions as well as under our Website Privacy Policy and our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices. If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, policies and procedures posted on our Website under the Legal Information section, Tandigm’s Website Privacy Policy and Tandigm’s HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, you should disconnect from this Website immediately.
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
Your health information is personal, and we are committed to protecting it.
For purposes of this Notice, Tandigm Care Solutions and the pronouns “we,” “us” and “our” refer to all of the facilities operated, managed or affiliated with Tandigm Care Solutions in the state of Pennsylvania.
We use and disclose health information about you for treatment, to obtain payment for treatment, for administrative purposes, to evaluate the quality of care that you receive, and for other purposes permitted by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or 1996 (HIPAA). We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information, to provide you a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to that information, and to provide you with notice of a breach of your unsecured protected health information.
This Notice applies to all records about your care that are created, and/or maintained by us. Your health information is contained in a medical record that is the physical property of Tandigm Care Solutions. We are required to abide by the terms of this Notice.
We reserve the right to change our privacy practices, as reflected in this Notice, to revise this Notice, and to make the new provisions effective for all protected health information we maintain. Revised Notices will be available on our website, or upon your request.
We may use or disclose your health information, in certain situations, without your consent or authorization. Below we describe examples of how we may use or disclose your health information as permitted under or required by state or federal law, including instances where we will obtain your consent or authorization. Such uses or disclosures may be in oral, paper or electronic format.
For Treatment. We may use and disclose your health information to provide you with medical treatment or services or to assist in the coordination, continuation, or management of your health care and any related services. This includes the coordination or management of your health care with a third party. For example, a health care provider, such as a physician, nurse, or other person providing health services to you, will record information in your record that is related to your treatment. This may include interdisciplinary conferences with team members from Tandigm Care Solutions and support care teams from other facilities involved in your care and treatment or other providers who may be able to provide information or insight in developing and coordinating your plan of care. This information is necessary for other health care providers to determine what treatment you should receive.
For Payment. We may use and disclose your health information to others for purposes of obtaining payment for treatment and services that you receive. For example, a bill may be sent to you or to a third-party payer, such as an insurance company or health plan, for care, items or services provided to you. The information on the bill may contain information that identifies you, your diagnosis, and treatment.
For Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose health information about you for operational purposes. For example, your health information may be used by us or disclosed to others in order to:
Communications. We may use and disclose your information to provide appointment reminders, leave a brief message on your answering machine, or leave a message with an individual who answers the phone at your residence. We may, from time to time, contact you to provide information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. In order to better serve you, we may communicate with you about refill reminders and alternative products. We may also provide you with informational materials including information about Tandigm Care Solutions and its subsidiaries. We may also, at times, send you informational materials about a particular product or service that may be helpful for your treatment. We may also, at times, send you information about how you can participate in the political process to affect your access to health care. Material may also come from a third party.
Required or Permitted by Law. We may use and disclose information about you as required or permitted by law. If a use or disclosure is required by law, the use or disclosure will be made in compliance with the law and will be limited to the relevant requirements of the law. If required by law, you will be notified of any such uses or disclosures. For example, we may use and/or disclose information for the following purposes:
Public Health. Your health information may be used or disclosed for public health activities such as: (1) assisting public health authorities or other legal authorities to prevent or control disease, injury, or disability; (2) reporting child abuse or neglect to a public health authority or other governmental authority that is authorized by law to receive such reports; (3) reporting information to a person subject to the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for public health purposes related to the quality, safety or effectiveness of FDA-regulated products or activities such as collecting or reporting adverse events, dangerous products, and defects or problems with FDA-regulated products; (4) notifying a person who may be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease, if such disclosure is authorized by law; (5) reporting information to your employer, for the purposes of conducting an evaluation of medical surveillance of the workplace or for the purposes of evaluating whether your have a work-related illness or injury; (6) disclosing proof of immunization to your school, or your child’s school, if the school is required by law to have such proof prior to admitting you or your child. We will obtain and document your agreement to such immunization disclosures; (7) we may use or disclose your health information when necessary to prevent a serious and imminent threat to your health or safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. Any disclosure would only be to someone able to help prevent the threat of harm.
Individuals involved in your care. We may provide information about you to a family member, friend, or other person involved in your health care or in payment for your health care. If you are deceased, we may disclose medical information about you to a friend or family member who was involved in your medical care prior to your death, limited to information relevant to that person’s involvement, unless doing so would be inconsistent with wishes you expressed to us during your life. We will ask you to complete a form to help clarify for us which of your family members and/or friends are likely to be involved with your health care and/or payment for your health care. If we disclose information to a family member, relative or close personal friend, we will disclose only information that we believe is relevant to that person’s involvement with your health care or payment related to your health care.
Clinical Trials and Other Research Activities. We may use and disclose your health information for research purposes without an authorization from you when an institutional review board or privacy board has waived the authorization requirement. Under certain circumstances, your information may also be disclosed without your authorization to researchers preparing to conduct a research project or for research on decedents or to researchers pursuant to a written data use agreement.
Health and Safety. We may, consistent with applicable law and standards of ethical conduct, use or disclose health information about you if we believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious threat to the health or safety of a person or the public; provided that, if a disclosure is made, it must be to a person(s) reasonably able to prevent or lessen the threat. We may also use or disclose your health information if we believe that the use or disclosure is necessary for law enforcement authorities to identify or apprehend an individual who: (i) admits to participation in a violent crime that we reasonably believe caused serious physical harm to the victim, or (ii) appears to have escaped from a correctional institution or lawful custody.
Notification and Disaster Relief. We may use or disclose your health information to notify or assist in notifying your family, a personal representative, or another person responsible for your care, of your location, condition, or death. We may disclose your health information to disaster relief authorities so that your family can be notified of your location and condition.
Correctional Institutions. If you are an inmate or in the custody of law enforcement, we may disclose your health information to correctional institutions or law enforcement for such purposes as providing care, for the health and safety of yourself or others, for law enforcement at the correctional facility, or for maintenance of safety, security and order at the facility in accordance with state and/or federal regulations.
Decedents. Health information may be disclosed to funeral directors, medical examiners or coroners to enable them to carry out their lawful duties. Once you have been deceased for 50 years (or such other period as may be specified by law), we may use and disclose your health information without regard to the restrictions set forth in this Notice.
Organ/Tissue Donation. Your health information may be used or disclosed for cadaveric organ, eye or tissue donation and transplantation purposes.
Government Functions. We may disclose your health information for specialized government functions, such as military and veterans’ activities, national security and intelligence activities, and protection of public officials.
Workers’ Compensation. Your health information may be used or disclosed in order to comply with laws and regulations related to Workers’ Compensation.
Business Associates. We may contract with one or more third parties (our business associates) in the course of our business operations. We may disclose your health information to our business associates so that they can perform the job we have asked them to do. We require that our business associates sign a business associate agreement and agree to safeguard the privacy and security of your health information.
While we may use or disclose your health information without your written authorization as explained above, there are other instances where we will obtain your written authorization. Except as otherwise provided in this Notice, we will not use or disclose your health information without your prior written authorization. You may revoke an authorization at any time, except to the extent we have already relied on the authorization and taken action.
Examples of uses and disclosures that require your authorization are:
Psychotherapy Notes. If Psychotherapy Notes are created for your treatment, we must obtain your prior written authorization before using or disclosing them, except (1) if the creator of those notes needs to use or disclose them for treatment, (2) for use or disclosure in our own supervised training programs in mental health, or (3) for use or disclosure in connection with our defense of a proceeding brought by you. “Psychotherapy Notes” means notes recorded (in any medium) by a health care provider who is a mental health professional documenting or analyzing the contents of conversation during a private counseling session or a group, joint, or family counseling session and that are separated from the rest of the individual’s medical record. “Psychotherapy Notes” excludes medication prescription and monitoring, counseling session start and stop times, the modalities and frequencies of treatment furnished, results of clinical tests, and any summary of the following items: diagnosis, functional status, the treatment plan, symptoms, prognosis, and progress to date.
Clinical Trials and Other Research Activities. While we may use or disclose your health information for certain research activities without your authorization (explained above), there are other activities which may require your authorization. When your specific treatment is part of a research study and the exceptions to authorization explained above do not apply, we may disclose your health information to researchers only after you have signed a written informed consent to participate in the research study and a written authorization to use and disclose your health information for research purposes. You do not have to sign the authorization in order to receive traditional services from us. However, if you do not provide written authorization for us to disclose your health information to the researchers, you may become ineligible for the research study itself.
Marketing. If we use or disclose your health information for marketing purposes, we must first obtain your written authorization to do so, except if the communication is face-to-face by us to you, or is a promotional gift of nominal value.
No Sale of Your Health Information. We will not sell your health information to a third party without your prior written authorization.
Patient Recognition. We strive to celebrate and honor the lives of our patients through a variety of patient recognition activities, such as celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, weddings and other personal achievements, recognizing health achievements, publishing newsletters, holding patient contests, posting patient photos and fun facts on the facility bulletin board or “Wall of Fame,” acknowledging when a patient is hospitalized, and memorializing patients who pass away (“Patient Recognition Activities”). We may also use your information to send you or your family greeting cards as part of our Patient Recognition Activities. Patient Recognition Activities are voluntary. You may participate in these Patient Recognition Activities by executing a written authorization.
Uses and Disclosures of Your Highly Confidential Information. Some federal and/or state laws require special privacy protections for certain highly confidential health information relating to: (1) psychotherapy services; (2) mental health and developmental disabilities services;
Media. From time to time, media events are hosted at our facilities. The purpose of these events is to raise awareness about chronic health conditions. At these events, there may be individuals from the media as well as our public relations and marketing teams. If your image, voice, or statement is captured on film, we will obtain your written authorization prior to running any news article, press statement, or other publication with your image, voice, or statement. Your participation in these media events and authorization to disclose your likeness is completely voluntary.
You have the following rights regarding your health information. To exercise any of the rights below, please contact your facility’s management to obtain the proper forms.
You have the right to:
You may complain to Tandigm Care Solutions and to the Department of Health and Human Services if you believe your privacy rights have been violated. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.
If you have any questions about this notice or our privacy practices, or if you would like to request this notice in another language, please contact us at 1-844-826-3446. For complaints, please contact us at 1-215-496-4622 or Compliance@Tandigm.com.
The first part of this Notice, which sets forth our privacy practices related to your health information, indicates how we may use and disclose such information under federal privacy laws and regulations. As described in the Notice, there are certain types of highly confidential information that are specifically addressed in certain state laws and regulations, and which further restrict our use and disclosure of this type of highly confidential information. We have set forth below a chart that lists a general description of the limitations on use and disclosure of certain highly confidential information without your consent, in Pennsylvania. All consents for use or disclosure must meet the requirements of the applicable law.
Pennsylvania | |
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Records: State law sets forth restrictions on the use and disclosure of alcohol and drug abuse information under certain conditions and/or disclosure to only certain persons. | Yes |
HIV/AIDS: State law sets forth restrictions on the use and disclosure of information related to HIV/AIDS under certain conditions and/or disclosure to only certain persons. | Yes |
Mental Health Records: State law sets forth restrictions on the use and disclosure of mental health records under certain conditions and/or disclosure to only certain persons. | Yes |