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Privacy Officer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Effective Date: June 1, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\nunderstand the importance of privacy and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your medical\ninformation. We make a record\nof the medical care we provide and may receive\nsuch records from others.\nWe use these records to provide or enable\nother health care providers to provide quality medical care, to obtain payment\nfor services provided to you as allowed by your health plan and to enable us to\nmeet our professional and legal obligations to operate this medical practice\nproperly. We are required by law to maintain\nthe privacy of protected health\ninformation, to provide\nindividuals with notice\nof our legal duties and privacy practices with respect\nto protected health\ninformation, and to notify affected\nindividuals following a breach of unsecured\nprotected health information. This notice describes\nhow we may use and disclose your\nmedical information. It also describes your rights and our legal obligations with respect to your\nmedical information. If you have any questions about this Notice, please\ncontact our Privacy Officer listed\nabove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A. How This Medical Practice May Use or Disclose Your Health Information
B. When This Medical Practice May Not Use or Disclose Your Health Information
C. Your Health Information Rights
1. Right to Request Special Privacy Protections
2. Right to Request Confidential Communications
3. Right to Inspect and Copy
4. Right to Amend
5. Right to an Accounting of Disclosures
6. Right to a Paper or Electronic Copy of this Notice
D.Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices
E. Complaints<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A. How This Medical Practice May Use or Disclose Your Health Information<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This medical practice collects health\ninformation about you and stores it in a chart and on a computer and in an\nelectronic health record\/personal health record. This is your medical record.\nThe medical record is the property of this medical practice, but the\ninformation in the medical record belongs to you. The law permits us to use or disclose\nyour health information for the following purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
B. When This Medical Practice May Not Use or Disclose Your Health Information<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except as described in\nthis Notice of Privacy Practices, this medical practice will, consistent with\nits legal obligations, not use or disclose health information which identifies\nyou without your written authorization .If you do authorize this medical\npractice to use or disclose your health information for another purpose, you\nmay revoke your authorization in writing\nat any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C. Your Health Information Rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D. Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We reserve the right to\namend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future. Until such\namendment is made, we are required by law to comply with this Notice. After an amendment is made, the revised Notice of Privacy\nProtections will apply\nto all protected health\ninformation that we maintain, regardless of when it was created\nor received. We will keep a copy of the current\nnotice posted in our reception area, and a copy will be available at each appointment. We will also\npost the current\nnotice on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
E. Complaints<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Complaints about this Notice\nof Privacy Practices\nor how this medical practice\nhandles your health\ninformation should be directed\nto our Privacy Officer listed\nat the top of this\nNotice of Privacy\nPractices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are not satisfied with the manner\nin which this office handles\na complaint, you may submit a formal\ncomplaint to: OCRMail@hhs.gov<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n