Rights Of A Child To help you make good choices about your child's health plan, doctors, hospitals and

other providers. That includes the right to: Have to get accurate, easy-to-understand information " Limited provider network " is a group of doctors and other providers who only refer patients to other doctors who are in the same group. Meaning, you cannot see all the doctors who are in your health plan. If a health plan uses "limited networks", members have the rights: To check to see that your child's primary care provider and any specialist doctor you might like to see are part of the same "limited network." To know how your doctors are paid. That includes the rights: Some get a fixed payment no matter how often you visit. Others get paid based on the services they give to your child. To know about what those payments are and how they work. To know about the healthplan and the services provided:That includes the rights : To know how the health plan decides about whether a service is covered and/or medically necessary. To know about the people in the health plan who decides those things. Rights to know the names of the hospitals and other providers in your health plan and their addresses To a reasonable opportunity to choose a health care plan and primary care provider (the doctor or health care provider you will see most of the time and who will coordinate your care) and to change to another plan or provider in a reasonably easy manner. That includes the right to: Be informed of how to chose and change health plans and primary care provider; Choose any health plan you want that is available in your area and choose a primary care provider from that plan; Change your primary care provider; Child is confirmed to have special health care needs or a disability.It includes the rights: To use a specialist as your child's primary care provider. Children who are confirmed to have special health care needs or a disability have the right to special care. If your child has special medical problems, and the doctor your child is seeing leaves your health plan,then the member have the rights: To be able to continue seeing that doctor for three months and the health plan must continue paying for those services. Your daughter has the right to see a participating obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) without a referral from her primary care provider and without first checking with your health plan. Some plans may make you pick an OB/GYN before seeing that doctor without a referral. If your child's life is in danger, or that your child would be seriously hurt without getting treated right away,it includes the rights: To get the emergency services when you need them Coverage of emergencies is available without first checking with your health plan. You may have to pay a few dollars depending on your income. This is called a co-payment. Have the right and responsibility to take part in all the choices about your child's health care. You have the right to speak for your child in all treatment choices. You have the right to get a second opinion from another doctor in your health plan about what kind of treatment your child needs. You have the right to be treated fairly by your health plan, doctors, hospitals and other providers.

To know about the health status of child.It includes the rights to: To talk to your child's doctors and other providers in private To have your child's medical records kept private To look over and copy your child's medical records and to ask for changes to those records. If you think your doctor or the health plan was right,then the rights include: Have the right to a fair and quick process for solving problems with your health plan and the plan's doctors, hospitals and others who provide services to your child. If your health plan says it will not pay for a covered service or benefit that your child's doctor thinks is medically necessary, you have a right to have another group, outside the health plan Member Responsibilities: You and your health plan both have an interest in seeing your child's health improve. You can help by assuming these responsibilities. Try to follow healthy habits, such as, encourage your child to exercise, to stay away from tobacco, and to eat a healthy diet. Become involved in the doctor's decisions about your child's treatments. Work together with your health plan's doctors and other providers to pick treatments for your child that you have all agreed upon. If you have a disagreement with your health plan, try first to resolve it using the health plan's complaint process. Learn about what your health plan does and does not cover. Read your Member Handbook to understand how the rules work. If you make an appointment for your child, try to get to the doctor's office on time. If you cannot keep the appointment, be sure to call and cancel it. To pay your doctor and other providers co-payments that you owe them.

Report misuse of CHIP by health care providers, other CHIP members, or CHIP health plans.

Rights of Individual

Right to Life The right to life is the fundamental right, of which all other rights are corollaries. The right to life states that you own your own body. It is your property to do with as you please. No one may force you to do anything, no one may injure you in any way, and above all, no one may take your life (without consent.) The opposite to the right to life is life as a slave, where someone or some people essentially own you -- they can dictate what you do, when you do it, and take your life if they please. It should be noted that rights are guarantees to freedom of actions. They do not provide for anything but freedom of action. There is no right to food, for example; only the right to work and keep the proceeds with which you may buy food.

Reason Right to Liberty The right to liberty is a part of the right to life, specifically referring to your freedom of action. You may do what you want, when you want, provided you don't trample on the rights of anyone else. This is a necessity for man's life because man's means of survival is reason. Survival by requires that you are able to act upon your reason otherwise your reason is of no avail. You can only act on your reason if you are free from the coercion of others. If society were to permit some actions and not others, it would be permitting some reason and not other reason. It would be effectively destroying individual reason by making reason second place to some other standard. When a society prevents its citizens from the initiation of force, however, it is not circumventing reason, because there is never a reason for the initiation of force. Right to Property Property rights are an extension to the right to life. In order to support yourself through reason and stay alive, you must be able to own and use the product of your labor. If the tools of your survival are subject to random confiscation, then your life is subject to random destruction. Right to the Pursuit of Happiness The right to the pursuit of happiness is freedom of action. To live, man must achieve values. To achieve values, man must be free to think and act. The right to the pursuit of happiness means a man is free to do anything he pleases, as long as it doesn't conflict with the rights of others. Since man must use his own mind to live, he must be able to choose his values and act towards them. Even acts which are destructive to himself must be allowed, or a man cannot live by his own mind. Ultimately, man must be free to pursue his own goals and happiness. Right to Free Speech The right to free speech is a recognition that speech in itself if devoid of physical threats is not an initiation of force and does not warrant any retaliatory force. Many dictatorships and People's States will outlaw certain types of speech as being dangerous or inflammatory or against the will of the people, but this censorship is just an evasion of reality - hoping that if a problem is ignored it will go away. Freedom of speech is required for liberty because without the freedom of speech, you can not persuade others of what is right and what is wrong. Without the freedom to persuade others, only force can make people act in a particular way. It is an important check on government because it allows transgressions to be identified and fixed rather than hidden and perpetuated. Right to Self Defense The right to defend yourself is a corollary to the right to life. You must be able to protect what is yours when it is threatened. If you are being attacked the situation leaves the realm of morality it leaves the realm of the everyday and becomes an emergency. In such an emergency, anything goes. That is the choice that your attacker has made, and he must live with his choice. The government must maintain the right to bear arms so that self defense will be possible.

Rights What Health Care Providers Can Do Adolescence is a critical developmental stage when youth are working to establish independence and individual identity. Health care professionals can help by encouraging screening and treatment, especially for teens experiencing depression, chronic anger, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancy, or sexual, physical, or emotional abuse. In the United States, many barriers limit teens' access to services. Barriers may include transportation difficulties, high cost, fear of invasive procedures, limited clinic hours, disapproving health care personnel, and fear that parents will find out. Societal negativity about teenage sexuality combined with significant barriers to health services may encourage sexual risk behaviors by teens. As a health care professional, you are already an advocate for youth. There are things that you can do to help youth become sexually healthy adults. Ensure that everyone working in your practice or clinic works to provide a youth-friendly environment, eliminating the barriers that deter so many young people from getting important health services and build and maintain trusting relationships with youth. What else can you do to promote Rights. Respect. Responsibility.? 1. Permit teens to walk-in for services. 2. Set aside late afternoon, early evening, and Saturday morning appointments for teens' use. 3. Make sure that the waiting room is welcoming to young men and young women, to straight and gay teens, and to youth of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. 4. Hang the Rights. Respect. Responsibility. posters. Click here to order additional, or larger, copies. 5. Make available consumer health information that is culturally appropriate and in the language(s) of the youth served. 6. Assure teens' confidentiality. Post confidentiality policies prominently in the waiting room as well as on sign-in sheets and client forms. 7. Alert teens that using their parents' health insurance may trigger an Explanation of Benefits form. Always offer teens free services or reduced fees for services, if you can. 8. Ensure that teens know that they can, if they wish, bring a friend, parent, or significant other with them when discussing health concerns with you. Place signs in the waiting room, inviting youth to bring someone with them. 9. Make condoms freely available in private spaces, such as restrooms and examining rooms. Post "take some" signs on bowls of condoms. 10. Ensure that teens need not undergo unnecessary procedures, such as pelvic exams, before receiving emergency contraception or regular birth control pills. 11. Educate youth about emergency contraceptive pills (ECP) and offer prescriptions to youth. Better yet, supply youth with ECP and with condoms. 12. Provide youth with time to ask questions and explore their options. Listen as well as talk. 13. Ask youth about important aspects of their livestheir education, friendships, family relationships, and goals as well as about their sexuality and other issues, such as substance use and violence. Avoid making assumptions about youth based on their age, gender, appearance, ability/disability, or race/ethnicity and avoid assuming that youth are/are not sexually active or heterosexual/homosexual. 14. Express respect for responsible sexual health behavior. Sign the petition, "I Support Young People's Right to Be Responsible."