As a home health patient, you have the privacy rights listed below.

• You have the right to know why we need to ask you questions
• You have the right to have your personal health care information kept confidential
• You have the right to refuse to answer questions
• You have the right to look at your personal health information
• You can ask the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to see, review, copy, or correct your personal health information, which that Federal agency maintains in the HHA Oasis System of Records. You can contact the CMS by calling toll free, 1-800-MEDICARE.

In addition, you have a "Patient's Right to Choose" the home health organization of your choice. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 guarantees that patients have the right to choose their home care provider when they are discharged from a hospital at which time they should be given a list of Medicare-certified home care agencies to choose from. VNA-TIP HomeCare has requested to be included on the list of home care agencies given to patients at the following hospitals: