The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides safeguards for your
privacy.
A Notice of Privacy Practice should be available to you in the office. The notice provides
information about how we may use and disclose protected health information about you in
order to carry out treatment, payment and health care operations, and for other purposes
permitted or required by law. The notice also contains information about your rights under
the law.
Additional information is available from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
By signing below, you understand and agree to the terms of our notice of privacy practices
which include:
- Protect health information that may be disclosed or used for
treatment, payment or health care operations.
- Authorization is required for certain disclosures of your
protected health information.
- You have the right to opt out of receiving fundraising
communications.
- You have the right to restrict the disclosure of your
Protected Health Information under certain circumstances.
- You have the right to be notified of a breach of unsecured
Protected Health Information.
By signing below, you understand and agree that:
- The Practice has a Notice of Privacy Practices that you have
the opportunity to review.
- The Practice reserves the right to change the Notice of
Privacy Practices and if we change our notice, you may obtain a revised copy by
contacting our office.
- You may revoke this consent in writing at any time and all
future disclosures will cease.
- The practice may condition the treatment to the execution of
this consent.