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breastfeeding insurance reimbursement
Affordable Care Act
In June 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the majority of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will redefine much of the US healthcare environment. One of the most valuable infant healthcare provisions requires health plans to cover breastfeeding support and supplies. That provision requires health plans to cover breastfeeding support and supplies without cost-sharing (i.e., no co-payment). Many health plans will need to implement this change with the first plan/policy year that begins on or after August 1, 2012.
Could my breastpump or lactation services be covered by my insurance?
While the ACA is greatly expanding benefits for breastfeeding, changes to coverage will vary among insurance plans.
Therefore, your first step is to understand the coverage and benefits available to you through your insurance plan. Your insurance company (or your employer’s benefits department) can provide you with a policy handbook detailing the benefits of your plan. After reviewing the policy handbook be sure to contact your health insurance plan’s member services department with questions. Most insurance companies offer a toll-free customer service number that you can call with specific questions about your health plan. (This number is typically found on the back of your insurance card.) The insurance plan representative should be able to explain your insurance coverage for any of the products or services that you receive.
In June 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the majority of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will redefine much of the US healthcare environment. One of the most valuable infant healthcare provisions requires health plans to cover breastfeeding support and supplies. That provision requires health plans to cover breastfeeding support and supplies without cost-sharing (i.e., no co-payment). Many health plans will need to implement this change with the first plan/policy year that begins on or after August 1, 2012.
Could my breastpump or lactation services be covered by my insurance?
While the ACA is greatly expanding benefits for breastfeeding, changes to coverage will vary among insurance plans.
Therefore, your first step is to understand the coverage and benefits available to you through your insurance plan. Your insurance company (or your employer’s benefits department) can provide you with a policy handbook detailing the benefits of your plan. After reviewing the policy handbook be sure to contact your health insurance plan’s member services department with questions. Most insurance companies offer a toll-free customer service number that you can call with specific questions about your health plan. (This number is typically found on the back of your insurance card.) The insurance plan representative should be able to explain your insurance coverage for any of the products or services that you receive.
clinical studies - maternity support belt
Beaty, C.M., V.J. Bhaktaram, MD, W.F Rayburn, MD, M.J. Parker, BSRT, H.D.
Christensen, PhD, and K Chandrasekaran, MD: Low Backache During Pregnancy Acute
Hemodynamic Effects of a Lumbar Support. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine.
December 1999; Vol. 44 No.12; pp 1007-1011.
“Elastic/Velcro lumbar and abdominal supports relieved low back pain without
acutely afftcting the hemodynamics of the fetus and the mother. "
Christensen, PhD, and K Chandrasekaran, MD: Low Backache During Pregnancy Acute
Hemodynamic Effects of a Lumbar Support. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine.
December 1999; Vol. 44 No.12; pp 1007-1011.
“Elastic/Velcro lumbar and abdominal supports relieved low back pain without
acutely afftcting the hemodynamics of the fetus and the mother. "
clinical studies - elastic compression stockings
Hobel, CJ, L. Castro, MD, D. Rosen MD, JS Greenspoon MD, and S Nessim DPH: The effect of thigh-length support stockings on the hemodynamic response to ambulation in pregnancy. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1996. Vol 174 No.6, pp.1734-1741.
“There are significant hemodynamic changes in pregnant subjects when they change from the sitting position to the lateral recumbent position and then change to standing with ambulation. Support stockings have a significant mechanical effect: they significantly increase afterload and systemic vascular resistance by preventing pooling of blood in the lower extremities. There may also be a biochemical effect that results in less catecholamine release. These results suggest that compression stockings could play an important role in supporting the circulation during ambulation. "
“There are significant hemodynamic changes in pregnant subjects when they change from the sitting position to the lateral recumbent position and then change to standing with ambulation. Support stockings have a significant mechanical effect: they significantly increase afterload and systemic vascular resistance by preventing pooling of blood in the lower extremities. There may also be a biochemical effect that results in less catecholamine release. These results suggest that compression stockings could play an important role in supporting the circulation during ambulation. "
clinical studies - wrist splints
Heckman, JD, R. Sassard: Musculoskeletal Considerations in Pregnancy. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. November 1994; Vol. 76 No. 11; pp 1720-1730.
“The second most frequent musculoskeletal symptom of pregnancy is pain in the hands and wrists, and carpal tunnel syndrome is the cause of these symptoms in many patients. Splinting of the wrist is the first line of treatment. A removeable, light, soft thermoplastic splint shaped to support the wrist in neutral or slight dorsiflexion should be used at night. " Ekman-Ordeberg, G.; Salgeback, S.; and Ordeberg, G.: Carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnancy. A prospective study. Acta Obstet. Gynec. Scandinavica, 66: 233-235, 1987. “forty-six (82%) of fifty-six patients had good relief of symptoms after using a wrist splint at night for two weeks. "
“The second most frequent musculoskeletal symptom of pregnancy is pain in the hands and wrists, and carpal tunnel syndrome is the cause of these symptoms in many patients. Splinting of the wrist is the first line of treatment. A removeable, light, soft thermoplastic splint shaped to support the wrist in neutral or slight dorsiflexion should be used at night. " Ekman-Ordeberg, G.; Salgeback, S.; and Ordeberg, G.: Carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnancy. A prospective study. Acta Obstet. Gynec. Scandinavica, 66: 233-235, 1987. “forty-six (82%) of fifty-six patients had good relief of symptoms after using a wrist splint at night for two weeks. "
PRIVACY POLICY
Advanced Home Medical Inc
Last Updated: 8/12/24
This privacy policy sets out how Advanced Home Medical Inc, and its parent company, Advanced Home Medical Inc., collect, use, and disclose personal information that you give when you interact with Advanced Home Medicalbreastpumps.com (“Advanced Home Medical Inc”) (the “Site”).
The Site may collect information that is considered protected health information, as governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), such as information related to devices purchased as part of a health insurance-supported transaction or information related to health insurance eligibility. This Privacy Policy does not apply to protected health information. Please refer to our Notice of HIPAA Privacy Policies below, which governs protected health information collected through the Site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy will be updated on this page, as indicated by the “Last Updated” date.
1. Collection of Your Personal Information
We may collect your personal information directly from you (such as when you interact with the Site, make a purchase, write a product review, and contact us), as well as from our vendors, affiliates, other individuals, and business partners.
Personal information we collect includes:
We do not use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies on the Site to collect certain information about you.
3. Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We may use and disclose (to our affiliates, business partners, and vendors) personal information for various purposes, at your direction, including:
4. Your Choices
If you receive marketing emails from us, you may opt out through the email’s instructions, as provided. Please note that regardless of your email preferences, we may send you notifications pertaining to the performance of our services, such as transactional communications relating to products you have purchased.
5. Links and Interactive Features
When using the Site, you may come across links or interactive features related to third-party websites and services that we do not operate or control. If you provide your personal information to that third party through its websites or services, you will be subject to that third party’s privacy practices, policies, and terms of use. This includes any online services operated by our vendors that provide us with your personal information at your direction (such as certain portals or features provided by a vendor). For example, certain third-party interactive features may allow you to share Site content to your social media profile. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information that you provide to a third-party website or service.
6. Data Security
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to help protect personal information collected or received through the Site. Although we use reasonable efforts to safeguard information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through the Site.
7. Information for California Residents
California customers may request a list of the third parties to whom a business has disclosed personal information during the preceding calendar year for third-party direct marketing purposes. To submit a request under California’s “Shine the Light” law, please send a letter to us at Advanced Home Medical Inc, 312 Paseo Tesoro, Walnut CA 91789.
Requests must include “California Shine the Light Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description, and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.
8. Contact Us
You may contact us at: Advanced Home Medical Inc, 312 Paseo Tesoro, Walnut CA 91789 or 909-444-2991.
Advanced Home Medical Inc
Notice of HIPAA Privacy Policies
Your Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.
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.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
You have some choices in the way that we use and share information as we:
We may use and share your information as we:
When it comes to your health information, you have certain rights. This section explains your rights and some of our responsibilities to help you.
Get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record
You can ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically. We will provide you with a paper copy promptly.
Choose someone to act for you
For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.
In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:
We typically use or share your health information in the following ways:
Treat you
We can use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you.
Example: A doctor requesting equipment to assist you asks another doctor about your overall health condition.
Bill for your services
We can use and share your health information to bill and get payment from health plans or other entities.
Example: We give information about you to your health insurance plan so it will pay for your services.
How else can we use or share your health information?
We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways – usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes. For more information see: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/faq/index.html. Please be aware that we never market or sell personal information.
Help with public health and safety issues
We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:
We can use or share your information for health research.
Comply with the law
We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.
Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
We can share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.
Work with a medical examiner or funeral director
We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.
Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
We can use or share health information about you:
We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
Our Responsibilities
We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our website.
Other Instructions for Notice
Advanced Home Medical Inc
Last Updated: 8/12/24
This privacy policy sets out how Advanced Home Medical Inc, and its parent company, Advanced Home Medical Inc., collect, use, and disclose personal information that you give when you interact with Advanced Home Medicalbreastpumps.com (“Advanced Home Medical Inc”) (the “Site”).
The Site may collect information that is considered protected health information, as governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), such as information related to devices purchased as part of a health insurance-supported transaction or information related to health insurance eligibility. This Privacy Policy does not apply to protected health information. Please refer to our Notice of HIPAA Privacy Policies below, which governs protected health information collected through the Site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy will be updated on this page, as indicated by the “Last Updated” date.
1. Collection of Your Personal Information
We may collect your personal information directly from you (such as when you interact with the Site, make a purchase, write a product review, and contact us), as well as from our vendors, affiliates, other individuals, and business partners.
Personal information we collect includes:
- Identifiers: Such as name, Site account username, postal address, phone number, and email address.
- Commercial and payment information: Such as purchase history and payment information (including billing and shipping address).
- Internet or other electronic network activity information: Such as IP address, browser type and language, operating system, Internet or mobile network provider, website access time, duration of visit, and information related to your interactions with the Site.
We do not use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies on the Site to collect certain information about you.
3. Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We may use and disclose (to our affiliates, business partners, and vendors) personal information for various purposes, at your direction, including:
- Provide Services. To provide you the Site and services, including processing your purchases, verifying customer information, processing payments, participation in customer surveys and promotions, remembering what products are in your online shopping cart, and assessing user interactions and concurrent transactions.
- Customer Service. To respond to your requests for technical support, online services, product information or to any other communication you initiate, including requests, inquiries, and complaints.
- Communications. In relation to our communications with you, such as sending you email newsletters and conducting marketing campaigns communicated to you, including through marketing emails, such as preventing ad fraud.
- Research and Development. To develop new features and to create new products or improve existing ones; and for internal purposes related to certain research, analytics, development, demonstration, innovation, testing, monitoring, risk management, and administrative purposes.
- Security and Repairs. For security purposes, such as for loss prevention and to protect against unauthorized disclosure of personal information, detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Business Transactions. In the event of a business transaction, such as in connection with a contemplated reorganization or an actual reorganization of our business, financing, a sale, or other transactions involving the disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purpose of permitting the due diligence required to decide whether to proceed with a transaction.
- Legal and Safety. To verify or maintain the quality or safety of our services; to improve, upgrade, or enhance our services; to help with public health and safety issues, such as facilitating product recalls; to meet our legal obligations and work with law enforcement; to protect and defend our rights and property, or the rights or safety of third parties; and to enforce our terms, this Privacy Policy, or agreements with third parties.
- The SMS opt-in or phone numbers for the purpose of SMS are not being shared
4. Your Choices
If you receive marketing emails from us, you may opt out through the email’s instructions, as provided. Please note that regardless of your email preferences, we may send you notifications pertaining to the performance of our services, such as transactional communications relating to products you have purchased.
5. Links and Interactive Features
When using the Site, you may come across links or interactive features related to third-party websites and services that we do not operate or control. If you provide your personal information to that third party through its websites or services, you will be subject to that third party’s privacy practices, policies, and terms of use. This includes any online services operated by our vendors that provide us with your personal information at your direction (such as certain portals or features provided by a vendor). For example, certain third-party interactive features may allow you to share Site content to your social media profile. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information that you provide to a third-party website or service.
6. Data Security
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to help protect personal information collected or received through the Site. Although we use reasonable efforts to safeguard information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through the Site.
7. Information for California Residents
California customers may request a list of the third parties to whom a business has disclosed personal information during the preceding calendar year for third-party direct marketing purposes. To submit a request under California’s “Shine the Light” law, please send a letter to us at Advanced Home Medical Inc, 312 Paseo Tesoro, Walnut CA 91789.
Requests must include “California Shine the Light Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description, and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.
8. Contact Us
You may contact us at: Advanced Home Medical Inc, 312 Paseo Tesoro, Walnut CA 91789 or 909-444-2991.
Advanced Home Medical Inc
Notice of HIPAA Privacy Policies
Your Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.
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.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Get a copy of your paper or electronic medical record
- Correct your paper or electronic medical record
- Request confidential communication
- Ask us to limit the information we share
- Get a list of those with whom we’ve shared your information
- Get a copy of this privacy notice
- Choose someone to act for you
- File a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated
You have some choices in the way that we use and share information as we:
- Tell family and friends about your condition
- Provide disaster relief
- Include you in a hospital directory
- Provide mental health care
- Market our services and sell your information
We may use and share your information as we:
- Treat you
- Run our organization
- Bill for your services
- Help with public health and safety issues
- Comply with the law
- Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
- Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
- Respond to lawsuits and legal actions
When it comes to your health information, you have certain rights. This section explains your rights and some of our responsibilities to help you.
Get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record
- You can ask to see or get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other health information we have about you. Ask us how to do this.
- We will provide a copy or a summary of your health information, usually within 30 days of your request. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
- You can ask us to correct health information about you that you think is incorrect or incomplete. Ask us how to do this.
- We may say “no” to your request, but we’ll tell you why in writing within 60 days.
- You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, home or office phone) or to send mail to a different address.
- We will say “yes” to all reasonable requests.
- You can ask us not to use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or our operations. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say “no” if it would affect your care.
- If you pay for a service or health care item out-of-pocket in full, you can ask us not to share that information for the purpose of payment or our operations with your health insurer. We will say “yes” unless a law requires us to share that information.
- You can ask for a list (accounting) of the times we’ve shared your health information for six years prior to the date you ask, who we shared it with, and why.
- We will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment, and health care operations, and certain other disclosures (such as any you asked us to make). We’ll provide one accounting a year for free but will charge a reasonable, cost-based fee if you ask for another one within 12 months.
You can ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically. We will provide you with a paper copy promptly.
Choose someone to act for you
- If you have given someone medical power of attorney or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information.
- We will make sure the person has this authority and can act for you before we take any action.
- You can complain if you feel we have violated your rights by contacting us at Advanced Home Medical Inc, 312 Paseo Tesoro, Walnut CA 91789 or 909-444-2991.
- You can file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/.
- We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.
In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:
- Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care
- Share information in a disaster relief situation
- Marketing purposes
- Sale of your information
- Our Uses and Disclosures
We typically use or share your health information in the following ways:
Treat you
We can use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you.
Example: A doctor requesting equipment to assist you asks another doctor about your overall health condition.
Bill for your services
We can use and share your health information to bill and get payment from health plans or other entities.
Example: We give information about you to your health insurance plan so it will pay for your services.
How else can we use or share your health information?
We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways – usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes. For more information see: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/faq/index.html. Please be aware that we never market or sell personal information.
Help with public health and safety issues
We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:
- Preventing disease
- Helping with product recalls
- Reporting adverse reactions to medications
- Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
- Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety
We can use or share your information for health research.
Comply with the law
We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.
Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
We can share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.
Work with a medical examiner or funeral director
We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.
Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
We can use or share health information about you:
- For workers’ compensation claims
- For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official
- With health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law
- For special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services
We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
Our Responsibilities
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
- We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
- We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
- We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us we can in writing. If you tell us we can, you may change your mind at any time. Let us know in writing if you change your mind.
We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our website.
Other Instructions for Notice
- 8/12/2024 is the Effective Date of this Notice
- Advanced Home Medical Inc.’s Compliance Officer may be contacted at info@advancedhomemed.com or 909-444-2991
- Please be aware that we never market or sell personal information.