Your Health Insurance Shop Privacy Policy
Protecting the privacy and confidentiality of information about our
clients and/or their employees is very important to NFP and
Your Health Insurance Shop. Please read this notice carefully to
understand what we do.
NFP and Your Health Insurance Shop complies with the various
consumer privacy and security regulations including the Gramm Leach
Bliley Act (GLBA), HIPAA, FACT ACT and The Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (Public Law No. 111-148), as amended by the Health
Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111-152),
and the Social Security Act.
We are authorized to collect private/personal information and any
supporting documentation, including social security numbers by signed
privacy statements through various insurance carriers and the
marketplace.
We need the information provided about you and the other individuals
listed including your employees and dependents to determine eligibility
for enrollment in a qualified health plan through the Federal Health
Insurance Marketplace or direct with an insurance carrier.
While providing the requested information (including social security
numbers) is voluntary, failing to provide it may delay or prevent your
ability to obtain health coverage through the Marketplace or direct with
an insurance carrier. If you don't provide correct information or
knowingly and willfully provide false or fraudulent information, you may
be subject to a penalty and other law enforcement action.
NFP and Your Health Insurance Shop limits access to our customers
and/or their employee's information to only those persons or entities
who need access to the information to perform their job functions and
only with whom we have a privacy agreement including:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Marketplace
Insurance Carriers
Other Agents and Brokers of NFP, Your Health Insurance Shop and
Other Agencies in the process of:
Quoting, submitting applications, proof of income, claims
administration, general administration, and other selected information
on your behalf.
NFP and Your Health Insurance Shop and our employees use
technology and design our business practices to safeguard, according to
strict standards of security and confidentiality, any information we
collect, receive, or maintain about our customer's and/or their
employees. NFP and Your Health Insurance Shop strive to protect
against anticipated threats or hazards to such records and to protect
against unauthorized access to or use of such information or records.
Should you have any questions concerning this privacy statement please
contact the appropriate office listed below.
NFP
115 VIP Drive
Suite 300
Wexford, PA 15090
(814) 445-4943
(800) 491-3642
www.NFP.com
Your Health Insurance Shop
608 Georgian Place
Somerset, PA 15501
(814) 445-4943
(800) 491-3642
www.yourhealthinsuranceshop.com
Protect Your Identity
Your Health Insurance Shop recommends the following ways for you to protect your identity:
- Don't give out your social security number and/or personal information
- Don't use PIN numbers when making purchases
- Exercise caution online
- Be careful with your email
- Guard your trash
- Check your credit report regularly, go to annualcreditreport.com
- Buy credit checking service
- Remove personal information from old computers
- Google sites for more preventative information