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Heil Dental Arts |
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NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES |
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THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. |
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PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY. |
| OUR LEGAL DUTY |
| We care about our patients privacy and strive to protect the confidentiality of your health information at this practice. New federal and state law requires that we issue this official notice of our privacy practices currently in effect and to provide notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information. This Notice takes effect 4-14-03, and will remain in effect until we replace it. |
| We reserve the right to change our privacy practices, and the applicable law permits the terms of the Notice at any time, provided such changes. We reserve the right to make the changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our Notice effective for all health information that we maintain, including health information we created or received before we made the changes. Before we make a significant change to our privacy practices, we will change this Notice and make the new Notice available upon request. |
| USES AND DISCLOSURES OF HEALTH INFORMATION |
| The following categories describe how we use and disclose health information about you for treatment, payment and health care operations that are permitted by the law without authorization by the patient. |
| TREATMENT |
| We may use or disclose your health information to a physician or other health care provider providing treatment to you and to coordinate benefits with a third party payer. |
| PAYMENT |
| We may use and disclose health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you to your insurance company, confirming coverage and collection activities. |
| HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS |
| We may use and disclose your health information for treatment, payment or health care operations. Health care operations include quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of healthcare professionals, evaluating practitioner and provider performance, conducting training programs, accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities. |
| TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS |
| We may disclose your health information to a family member, friend or other person to the extent necessary to help with your health care or the payment for your health care. Before we disclose your health information to these people, we will provide you with an opportunity to object to our use or disclosure. If you are not present, or in the event of your incapacity or an emergency, we will disclose your medical information based on our professional judgment of whether the disclosure would be in your best interest. We may use our professional judgment and our experience with common practice to make reasonable inferences of your best interest in allowing a person to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, x-rays, or other similar forms of health information. We may use or disclose information about you to notify or assist in notifying a person involved in your care, of your location and general condition. |
| APPOINTMENT REMINDERS |
| We may use or disclose your health information to provide you with appointment reminders (such as voicemail messages, postcards or letters.) |
| MARKETING HEALTH-RELATED SERVICES |
| We will not use your health information for marketing communications without your written authorization. |