About Your Privacy
  
Effective April 14, 2003, new federal regulations, known as the Privacy Rules, will govern how the Health and Welfare Fund may use and disclose your medical records.

These regulations will affect some of your dealings with the Fund Office. We recognize that the requirements of the new Privacy Rules may be an inconvenience to you. However, the Fund Office and the Fund Trustees are doing everything possible to minimize the burden on you.

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which issued the regulations, has a website which discusses the Privacy Rules and answers a number of questions at www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/privacy.html.