Your Patient Bill Of Rights
Historically, each health care facility in the United States has subscribed to a written Patient Bill of Rights that was created by the American Hospital Association in 1995. That document …
Category Archives: Legal Documents
The Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998
This federal act requires that all group health plans or individual insurance contracts that provide medical and surgical benefits must follow the federal guidelines below when one of their subscribers …
Signing A Treatment Consent Form
Read the Fine Print: Before you have any invasive diagnostic or treatment procedure in the hospital, you will be asked to sign a treatment consent form. Legally, treatment consent forms …
How Your Confidentiality Is Maintained
HIPAA: Every health care consumer is guaranteed privacy and confidentiality by HIPAA, the Health Information Portability & Accountability Act of 1996. This Act protects your personal information by holding EVERYONE …
Newborn’s & Mother’s Health Protection Act
Group health plans and health insurance issuers generally may not, under federal law, restrict benefits for any hospital length of stay in connection with childbirth for the mother or newborn …
What I Need To Know About Advance Directives
There may come a time in your life when you will be unable to make your own decisions regarding your medical care. An Advance Directive is your life on your …