Notice of Privacy Practices

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.

Health New England (HNE) knows how important it is to protect your privacy at all times and in all settings. This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how HNE may collect, use and disclose your protected health information, and your rights concerning your protected health information. “Protected health information” or “PHI” is information about you, including demographic information such as Race, Ethnicity, Language, Disability (RELD), Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity (SOGI) data, that can reasonably be used to identify you, and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to you, or the payment for that care.

State and federal law require us to maintain the privacy of your protected health information. This includes protecting all of your information whether it is oral, written or in electronic format. The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) also requires us to provide you this notice about our legal duties and privacy practices.

This Notice takes effect September 1, 2025. We must follow the privacy practices described in this Notice while it is in effect. We may change the terms of this Notice at any time in the future and make the new Notice effective for all PHI that we maintain. This Notice replaces any other information you have previously received from us with respect to your PHI. Whenever we make an important change, we will publish the updated Notice on this page. We will inform subscribers whenever we make a material change to the privacy practices described in this notice in one of our periodic mailings.

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