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4. Conducting or arranging for medical review, legal services, and auditing functions, including fraud and abuse detection and compliance programs; 5. Planning and development, such as conducting cost-management and planning related analyses relating to managing and operating the Plan (including formulary development and administration, development or improvement of methods of payment or coverage policies); and 6. Management and general administrative activities of the Plan, including but not limited to: A. Managing activities related to implementing and complying with the Privacy Regulations; B. Resolving claim appeals and other internal grievances; C. Merging or consolidating the Plan with another Plan, including related due diligence; and D. As permitted under the Privacy Regulations, creating de-identified health information or a limited data set. . B. Other Uses and Disclosures of Pill The Privacy Regulations permit certain other uses and disclosures of your PHI. These include, for example, releasing PHI to personal representatives of deceased covered persons, releasing PHI for public health activities, releasing PHI for court proceedings, and releasing PHI for law enforcement and similar purposes. If the Plan releases PHI in any of these other pennitted situations, it will do so according to the requirements of the Privacy Regulations. The Privacy Regulations also permit the Plan to release PHI if it receives a valid authori~ation from you. If the Plan receives a valid authornation, the Plan will disclose PHI to the person or orga~ation you authori~e to receive the information. This may include, for example, releasing information to your spouse, to the pension plan, other retirement plans, vacation plan or similar plan for the purposes related to administering those plans. C. Release of PHI to the Plan Sponsor The Plan may disclose PHI to the Plan Sponsor. The plan documents, including this Summary of Benefits, have been amended to incorporate the following provisions. The Plan Sponsor will receive and use PHI only for the Plan administration functions that the Plan Sponsor performs for the Plan. In addition, the Plan Sponsor will: 1. Not use or further disclose PHI other than as permitted or required by the Summary of Benefits or as required by law. 2. Ensure that any agents, to whom the Plan Sponsor provides PHI received from the Plan, agree to the same restrictions and conditions that apply to the Plan Sponsor with respect to such PHI; 3. Not use or disclose PHI for employment-related actions and decisions unless authori~ed by the person who is the subject of the PHI; 4. Not use or disclose PHI in connection with any other benefit or employee benefit plan of the Plan Sponsor unless authori~ed by the person who is the subject of the information; 3