Privacy Notice
NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AN DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
We respect our legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give ou notice of our privacy practices. This notice describes how we protect your health iinformation and what rights you have regarding it.
TREATMENT, PAYMENT, AND HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS
The most common reason why we use or disclose our health information, payment or halth care operations. Examples of how we use or disclose information for treatment purposes are: setting up an appointment for you testing or examining your eyes prescribing glassles, contact lenses, or eye medications and faxing them to be filled showing you how vision aids referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aids or services or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use or disclose your health informatin for apyment purposes are asking you about your health or vision care plans, or o ther sources of payment preparing and sending bills or claims and collecting unpaid a mounts (either ourselves or through a collection agency or attorney). "Health care operations: mean those administrative and managaerial functions that we have to do in order to sun our office. Examples of how we use or disclose your h ealth information for health care operations are financial or billing audits internal quality assurance personnel decisinos participation in managaed care plans defense of legal matters business planning and outside storage of our records.
We routinely use your health information inside our office for these purposes without any special permission. If we need to disclose your health information ouotside of our offi ce for these reasons, we will not ask you for special written permission.
USES AND DISCLOSURES FOR OTHER REASONS WITHOUT PERMISSION
In some limited situations, the law allows or requires us to use or disclose our health information without our permission. Not all of these situations will apply to us some may never come up at our office at all. Such uses or disclosures are:
. when a state of federal law mandates that certain health information be reported for a specific purposes
. for public health purposes, such as contagious disease reporting, investigation or surveillance and noties to and from the federal Food and Drug Administration regarding drugs or medical devices
. disclosures to governmental authorities about victims of suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence
. uses and disclosures for health oversidht activities, such as for the licensing of doctirs for audits by Medicare or Medicaid or for investigatin of possible violations of health care laws
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AN DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
We respect our legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give ou notice of our privacy practices. This notice describes how we protect your health iinformation and what rights you have regarding it.
TREATMENT, PAYMENT, AND HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS
The most common reason why we use or disclose our health information, payment or halth care operations. Examples of how we use or disclose information for treatment purposes are: setting up an appointment for you testing or examining your eyes prescribing glassles, contact lenses, or eye medications and faxing them to be filled showing you how vision aids referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aids or services or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use or disclose your health informatin for apyment purposes are asking you about your health or vision care plans, or o ther sources of payment preparing and sending bills or claims and collecting unpaid a mounts (either ourselves or through a collection agency or attorney). "Health care operations: mean those administrative and managaerial functions that we have to do in order to sun our office. Examples of how we use or disclose your h ealth information for health care operations are financial or billing audits internal quality assurance personnel decisinos participation in managaed care plans defense of legal matters business planning and outside storage of our records.
We routinely use your health information inside our office for these purposes without any special permission. If we need to disclose your health information ouotside of our offi ce for these reasons, we will not ask you for special written permission.
USES AND DISCLOSURES FOR OTHER REASONS WITHOUT PERMISSION
In some limited situations, the law allows or requires us to use or disclose our health information without our permission. Not all of these situations will apply to us some may never come up at our office at all. Such uses or disclosures are:
. when a state of federal law mandates that certain health information be reported for a specific purposes
. for public health purposes, such as contagious disease reporting, investigation or surveillance and noties to and from the federal Food and Drug Administration regarding drugs or medical devices
. disclosures to governmental authorities about victims of suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence
. uses and disclosures for health oversidht activities, such as for the licensing of doctirs for audits by Medicare or Medicaid or for investigatin of possible violations of health care laws