HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices
This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how we may use and disclose your protected health information (PHI) to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations (TPO) and for other purposes that are permitted or required by law. It also describes your rights to access and control your protected health information. "Protected Health Information" is information about you, including demographic information, thet may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services.
Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information: Your protected health information may be used and disclosed to your physician, our office and others outside of our office that are involved in your care and treatment for the pirpose of providing health care services to you, to pay your health care bills, to support the operation of the physician's practice, and any other use required by law.
Treatment: We will use and disclose your health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your health care and related services. This includes the coordination or management of your health care with a third party. For example, we would disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to a home health agency that provides care to you. For example, your protected health information may be provided to a physician to whom you have been referred to ensure that the physician ahs the necessary information to diagnose or treat you.
Payment: Your protected health information will be used, as needed, to obtain payment for your health care services. For example, obtaining approval for a hospital stay may require that your relevant protected health information be disclosed to the health plan to obtain approval for hospital admission.
Healthcare Operations: We may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information in order to support the business activities of our practice or other physcians practices. These activitis include, but are not limited to, appointment scheduling, quality assessment activitis, employee review activities, training of medical students, licensing, and conducting or arranging for other business activities. For example, we may disclose your protected health information to medical school students that see patients in our office. In addition, we may use a sign-in sheet at the registration desk where you will be asked to sign your nme and indicate your physician. We may also call or disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to contact you to remind you of your appointment.
We may use or disclose your protected health information in the following situations without your authorization: as required by Law, Public Health issues as required by law, communicable diseases: Health oversight, abuse or neglect, Food and Drug Administration requirements, legal activities, law enforcement, coroners, funeral directors, organ donor research projects, criminal activity, military activity and national security, workers' compensation
You may revoke this authorization, at any time, in writing, except to the extent that your physicians or the physician's practice has taken action in reliance on the use or disclosure indicated in the authorization.
Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information: Your protected health information may be used and disclosed to your physician, our office and others outside of our office that are involved in your care and treatment for the pirpose of providing health care services to you, to pay your health care bills, to support the operation of the physician's practice, and any other use required by law.
Treatment: We will use and disclose your health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your health care and related services. This includes the coordination or management of your health care with a third party. For example, we would disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to a home health agency that provides care to you. For example, your protected health information may be provided to a physician to whom you have been referred to ensure that the physician ahs the necessary information to diagnose or treat you.
Payment: Your protected health information will be used, as needed, to obtain payment for your health care services. For example, obtaining approval for a hospital stay may require that your relevant protected health information be disclosed to the health plan to obtain approval for hospital admission.
Healthcare Operations: We may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information in order to support the business activities of our practice or other physcians practices. These activitis include, but are not limited to, appointment scheduling, quality assessment activitis, employee review activities, training of medical students, licensing, and conducting or arranging for other business activities. For example, we may disclose your protected health information to medical school students that see patients in our office. In addition, we may use a sign-in sheet at the registration desk where you will be asked to sign your nme and indicate your physician. We may also call or disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to contact you to remind you of your appointment.
We may use or disclose your protected health information in the following situations without your authorization: as required by Law, Public Health issues as required by law, communicable diseases: Health oversight, abuse or neglect, Food and Drug Administration requirements, legal activities, law enforcement, coroners, funeral directors, organ donor research projects, criminal activity, military activity and national security, workers' compensation
You may revoke this authorization, at any time, in writing, except to the extent that your physicians or the physician's practice has taken action in reliance on the use or disclosure indicated in the authorization.