Privacy Notice
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.
We respect our legal obgligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give you notice of our privacy practices. This notice describes how we protect your health information and what rights you have regarding it.
Treatment, Payment, and Heath Care Operations
The most common reason why we use or disclose your health information is for treatment, payment or health 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 glasses, contact lenses, or eye medications, and faxing them to billed, referring you to another doctor or clinic of eye care, or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use ofr disclose your helath information for payment purposes: asking you about your health or vision care plans, or other souces of payment: preparing and sending bills or claims: and collecting upaid amounts (either ourselves, or through a collection agency or attorney). "Health Care Operations" mean those administrative and managerial functions that we have to do in order to run our office. Examples of how use or disclose your health information for health care operations are: financial or billing audits internal quaity assurance' personnel decisions participation in managed care plans defense of legal matters business planning and outside storage of our records.
We routinely use your health information inside our office for theses purposes without any special permission. If we need to disclose your health information outside of our our office for theses reasons, we will usually ask you for special written permission.
We may call or write to remind you of scheduled appointments, or that it is time to make an routine appointment. We may also call or write to notify you of other treatments and services available at our office that may benefit you. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will mail you an appointment reminder on a post card or letter , and/or leave you a reminder message on your hom answering machine or with someone who answers your phone if you are not home.
We will not make any other uses or disclosures of your health information unless you sign a written "authorization form". If you do sign an authorization, you may revoke it at any time. Revocations must be sent to the office in writing.
For a complete copy of our privacy practices, please call or visit the office.
We respect our legal obgligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give you notice of our privacy practices. This notice describes how we protect your health information and what rights you have regarding it.
Treatment, Payment, and Heath Care Operations
The most common reason why we use or disclose your health information is for treatment, payment or health 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 glasses, contact lenses, or eye medications, and faxing them to billed, referring you to another doctor or clinic of eye care, or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use ofr disclose your helath information for payment purposes: asking you about your health or vision care plans, or other souces of payment: preparing and sending bills or claims: and collecting upaid amounts (either ourselves, or through a collection agency or attorney). "Health Care Operations" mean those administrative and managerial functions that we have to do in order to run our office. Examples of how use or disclose your health information for health care operations are: financial or billing audits internal quaity assurance' personnel decisions participation in managed care plans defense of legal matters business planning and outside storage of our records.
We routinely use your health information inside our office for theses purposes without any special permission. If we need to disclose your health information outside of our our office for theses reasons, we will usually ask you for special written permission.
We may call or write to remind you of scheduled appointments, or that it is time to make an routine appointment. We may also call or write to notify you of other treatments and services available at our office that may benefit you. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will mail you an appointment reminder on a post card or letter , and/or leave you a reminder message on your hom answering machine or with someone who answers your phone if you are not home.
We will not make any other uses or disclosures of your health information unless you sign a written "authorization form". If you do sign an authorization, you may revoke it at any time. Revocations must be sent to the office in writing.
For a complete copy of our privacy practices, please call or visit the office.
