• Your insurance card
  
• Referral form or letter, if appropriate
  
• Information about your doctors, including names and addresses
  
• Emergency contact information
  
  

Barnes-Jewish Hospital is following federal guidelines that help protect patient's health information by limiting the amount of information provided to the public without patient authorization. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that is designed to ensure the portability of health insurance for individuals from one job to another and protect patient health information. Protected health information is any health information that can be used to identify a patient and relates to health-care services provided to the patient or the payment of those services. It includes all medical records and other information, which identifies the patient, such as demographic, medical and financial - in any form - electronic, paper or spoken.

You will receive a copy of the notice outlining HIPAA Privacy when you reach your point of service area. To see the notice now, click here.