for inspection (e.g., psychotherapy notes or information compiled for civil, criminal, or administrative proceedings).
If you want to exercise this right, your request to the Plan must be in writing, and you must include a statement to support the requested amendment. Within 60 days of receipt of your request, the Plan will take one of these actions:
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Make the amendment as requested
• Provide a written denial that explains why your request was denied and any rights you may have to disagree or file a complaint • Provide a written statement that the time period for reviewing your request will be extended for no more than 30 more days, along with the reasons for the delay and the date by which the Plan expects to address your request Right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information You have the right to a list of certain disclosures of your health information the Plan has made. This is often referred to as an “accounting of disclosures.” You generally may receive this accounting if the disclosure is required by law, in connection with public health activities, or in similar situations listed in the table earlier in this notice, unless otherwise indicated below. You may receive information on disclosures of your health information for up to six years before the date of your request. You do not have a right to receive an accounting of any disclosures made in any of these circumstances:
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For treatment, payment, or health care operations To you about your own health information Incidental to other permitted or required disclosures
Where authorization was provided
• To family members or friends involved in your care (where disclosure is permitted without authorization) • For national security or intelligence purposes or to correctional institutions or law enforcement officials in certain circumstances • As part of a “limited data set” (health information that excludes certain identifying information)
In addition, your right to an accounting of disclosures to a health oversight agency or law enforcement official may be suspended at the request of the agency or official.
If you want to exercise this right, your request to the Plan must be in writing. Within 60 days
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