HIPAA Privacy Notice

HIPAA Privacy Notices: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is a federal law that protects the privacy of a client’s individual identifiable health information. The Privacy Notice tells the client about their privacy rights, the duties of the State to protect health information, and how the State may use or disclose health information.

HIPAA Privacy Notice Cover Letters: The cover letter for the HIPAA Privacy Notice provides an explanation of the HIPAA Privacy Notice and a brief summary of information.

These documents are in portable document format (.pdf), right click and choose the "save to" option to download the files to your system.

Medicaid:

CHIP:

Release of Health Information Form

To give HHSC permission to release all or part of your Medicaid claims history, which includes health information.

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