{"id":51,"date":"2018-10-11T23:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mccoyinstitute.fm1.dev\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2019-07-01T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:35:58","slug":"hipaa-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccoyinstitute.org\/resources\/hipaa-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"HIPAA Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Privacy Officer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Effective Date: June 1, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIIIS NOTICE\nDESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL\nINFORMATJON ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND\nDISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS\nINFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.<\/h3>\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

  1. Treatment. We use medical information about you to provide your medical care. We disclose medical information to our employees and others who are involved in providing the care you need. For example, we may share your medical information with other physicians or other health care providers who will provide services that we do not provide. Or we may share this information with a pharmacist who needs it to dispense a prescription to you, or a laboratory that performs a test. We may also disclose medical information to members of your family or others who can help you when you are sick or injured, or after you die.<\/li>
  2. Payment. We use and disclose medical information about you to obtain payment for the services we provide.\u00a0 For example, we give your health plan the information it requires before it will pay us. We may also disclose information to other health care\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 providers to assist them in obtaining payment for services they have provided to you.<\/li>
  3. Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose medical information about you to operate this medical practice. For example, we may use and disclose this information to review and improve the quality of care we provide, or the competence and qualifications of our professional staff. Or we may use and disclose this information to get your health plan to authorize services or referrals. We may also use and disclose this information as necessary for medical reviews, legal services and audits, including fraud and abuse detection and compliance programs and business planning and management. We may also share your medical information with our “business associates,” such as our billing service, that perform administrative services for us. We have a written contract with each of these business associates that contains terms requiring them and their subcontractors to protect the confidentiality and security of your medical information. We may also share your information with other health care providers, health care clearinghouses or health plans that have a relationship with you, when they request this information to help them with their quality assessment and improvement activities, their patient-safety activities, their population-based efforts to improve health or reduce health care costs, their protocol development, case management or care-coordination activities, their review of competence, qualifications and performance of health care professionals, their training programs, their accreditation, certification or licensing activities, or their health care fraud and abuse detection and compliance\u00a0 efforts.<\/li>
  4. Appointment Reminders. We may use and disclose medical information to contact and remind you about appointments. If you are not home, we may leave this information on your answering machine or in a message left with the person answering the phone.<\/li>
  5. Sign\nIn Sheet. We may use and disclose medical information about you by having you\nsign in when you arrive at our office. We may also call out your name when we\nare ready to see you.<\/li>
  6. Notification\nand Communication with\nFamily. We may disclose your\nhealth information to notify or assist in notifying a family\nmember, your personal representative\nor another person responsible for your care about your\nlocation, your general\ncondition or, unless you had instructed us otherwise, in the event\nof your death.\nIn the event of a disaster, we may disclose\ninformation to a relief\norganization so that\nthey may coordinate these notification efforts.\nWe may also disclose information to someone who\nis involved with your\ncare or helps pay for your care.\nIf you are able and available to agree or object, we will give\nyou the opportunity to object prior to making these\ndisclosures, although we may disclose this information in a disaster\neven over your\nobjection if we believe it is necessary to respond to the emergency\ncircumstances. If you are unable or unavailable to agree or object, our health\nprofessionals will use their best\njudgment in communication with your family\nand others.<\/li>
  7. Marketing.\nProvided we do not receive any payment for making these communications, we may\ncontact you to give you information about products or services related to your\ntreatment, case management or care coordination, or to direct or recommend\nother treatments, therapies, health care providers or settings of care that may\nbe of interest to you. We may similarly describe products or services provided\nby this practice and tell you which health plans this practice participates in.\nWe may also encourage you to maintain a healthy lifestyle and get recommended\ntests, recommend that you participate in a disease management program, provide\nyou with small gifts, tell you about\ngovernment sponsored health programs or encourage you to purchase a product\nor   service when we see you, for which\nwe may be paid. Finally, we may receive compensation which covers our cost of\nreminding you to take and refill your medication, or otherwise communicate\nabout a drug or biologic that is currently prescribed for you. We will not otherwise\nuse or disclose your medical information for marketing purposes or accept any\npayment for other marketing communications without your prior written\nauthorization. The authorization will disclose whether we receive any\ncompensation for \u00b7 any marketing activity you authorize, and we will stop any\nfuture marketing activity to the extent you revoke that authorization.<\/li>
  8. Sale\nof Health Information. We will not sell your health information without your\nprior written authorization. The authorization will disclose that we will\nreceive compensation for your health information if you authorize us to sell\nit, and we will stop any future sales of your information to the extent that\nyou revoke that authorization.<\/li>
  9. Required\nby Law. As required by law, we will use and disclose your health information,\nbut we will limit our use or disclosure to the relevant requirements of the law. When the law requires us to report\nabuse, neglect or domestic violence, or respond to judicial or administrative\nproceedings, or to law enforcement officials, we will further comply with the\nrequirement set forth below concerning those activities.<\/li>
  10. Public Health. We may, and are sometimes required by law to disclose your health information to public health authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability; reporting child, elder or dependent adult abuse or neglect; reporting domestic violence; reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications; and reporting disease or infection exposure. When we report suspected elder or dependent adult abuse or domestic violence, we will inform you or your personal representative promptly unless in our best professional judgment, we believe the notification would place you at risk of serious harm or would require informing a personal representative we believe is responsible for the abuse or harm.<\/li>
  11. Health\nOversight Activities. We may, and are sometimes required by law to disclose\nyour health information to health oversight agencies during the course of\naudits, investigations, inspections, licensure\nand other proceedings, subject to the limitations imposed by law.<\/li>
  12. Judicial and Administrative Proceedings. We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information in the course of any administrative or judicial proceeding to the extent\nexpressly authorized by a court\nor administrative order. We may also\ndisclose information about\nyou in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other\nlawful process if reasonable efforts have been made to notify you of the\nrequest and you have not objected, or if your objections have been resolved by\na court or administrative order.<\/li>
  13. Law\nEnforcement. We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health\ninformation to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying of\nlocating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying\nwith a court order, warrant, grand jury subpoena and other law enforcement purposes.<\/li>
  14. Coroners.\nWe may, and are often required by law, to disclose your health information to\ncoroners in connection with their investigations of deaths.<\/li>
  15. Organ\nor Tissue Donation. We may disclose your health information to organizations\ninvolved in procuring, banking or transplanting organs and tissues.<\/li>
  16. Public\nSafety. We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health\ninformation to appropriate persons in order to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent\nthreat to the health or safety of a particular person or the general public.<\/li>
  17. Proof of Immunization. We will disclose\nproof of immunization to a school\nthat is required\nto have it before admitting a student if you have agreed\nto the disclosure on behalf of yourself or your dependent.<\/li>
  18. Specialized\nGovernment Functions. We may disclose your health information for military or\nnational security purposes or to correctional institutions or law enforcement\nofficers that have you in their lawful custody.<\/li>
  19. Worker’s\nCompensation. We may disclose your health information as necessary to comply\nwith worker’s compensation laws. For example, to the extent your care is\ncovered by workers’ compensation, we will make periodic reports to your\nemployer about your condition. We are also required by law to report cases of\noccupational injury or occupational illness to the employer or workers’\ncompensation insurer.<\/li>
  20. Change\nof Ownership. In the event that this medical practice is sold or merged with\nanother organization, your health information\/record will become the property\nof the new owner, although you will maintain the right to request that copies\nof your health information be transferred to another physician or medical group.<\/li>
  21. Breach\nNotification. In the case of a breach of unsecured protected health\ninformation, we will notify you as required by law. If you have provided us\nwith a current email address, we may use email to communicate information\nrelated to the breach. In some circumstances our business associate may provide\nthe notification. We may also provide notification by other methods as\nappropriate.<\/li><\/ol>\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

    1. Right to Request Special Privacy Protections. You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information by a written request specifying what information you want to limit, and what limitations on our use or disclosure of that information you wish to have imposed. If you tell us not to disclose information to your commercial health plan concerning health care items or services for which you paid for in full out-of-pocket, we will abide by your request, unless we must disclose the information for treatment or legal reasons. We reserve the right to accept or reject any other request, and will notify you of our decision.<\/li>
    2. Right to Request Confidential Communications. You have the right to request that you receive your health information in a specific way or at a specific location. For example, you may ask that we send information to a particular e-mail account or to your work address. We will comply with all reasonable requests submitted in writing which specify how or where you wish to receive these communications.<\/li>
    3. Right to Inspect and Copy.\u00a0 You have the right to inspect and copy your health information, with limited exceptions. To access your medical information, you must submit a written request detailing what information you want access to, whether you want to inspect it or get a copy of it, and if you want a copy, your preferred form and format. We will provide copies in your requested form and format if it is readily producible, or we will provide you with an alternative format you find acceptable, or if we can’t agree and we maintain the record in an electronic format, we will provide your choice of a readable electronic or hardcopy format. We will also send a copy to any other person you designate in writing. We will charge a reasonable fee which covers our costs for labor, supplies, postage, and if requested and agreed to in advance, the cost of preparing an explanation or summary, as allowed by federal and state law. We may deny your request under limited circumstances. If we deny your request to access your child’s records or the records of an incapacitated adult you are representing because we believe allowing access would be reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the patient, you will have a right to appeal our decision.<\/li>
    4. Right to Amend. You have a right to request that we amend your health information that you believe is incorrect or incomplete. You must make a request to amend in writing, and include the reasons you believe the information is inaccurate or incomplete. We are not required to change your health information, and will provide you with information about this medical practice’s denial and how you can disagree with the denial. We may deny your request if we do not have the information, if we did not create the information (unless the person or entity that created the information is no longer available to make the amendment), if you would not be permitted to inspect or copy the information at issue, or if the information is accurate and complete as is. If we deny your request, you may submit a written statement of your disagreement with that decision, and we may, in turn, prepare a written rebuttal. All information related to any request to amend will be maintained and disclosed in conjunction with any subsequent disclosure of the disputed information.<\/li>
    5. Right to an Accounting of Disclosures. You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information made by this medical practice, except that this medical practice does not have to account for the disclosures provided to you or pursuant to your written authorization, or as described in paragraphs 1 (treatment), 2 (payment), 3 (health care operations), 6 (notification and communication with family) and 18 (specialized government functions) of Section A of this Notice of Privacy Practices or disclosures for purposes of research or public health which exclude direct patient identifiers, or which are incident to a use or disclosure otherwise permitted or authorized by law, or the disclosures to a health oversight agency or law enforcement official to the extent this medical practice has received notice from that agency or official that providing this accounting would be reasonably likely to impede their activities.<\/li>
    6. Right to a Paper or Electronic Copy of this Notice. You have a right to notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information, including a right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices, even if you have previously requested its receipt by e-mail.
      If you would like to have a more detailed explanation of these rights or if you would like to exercise one or more of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer listed at the top of this Notice of Privacy Practices.<\/li><\/ol>\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

      The complaint form may be found at:www.hhs.gov\/ocr\/privacy\/hipaa\/complaints\/hipcomplaint.pdf.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      You will not be penalized\nin any way for filing a complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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