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Privacy
Policy
It
is the policy of our practice that all physicians and staff
preserve the integrity and the confidentiality of protected
health information (PHI) pertaining to our patients. The purpose
of this policy is to ensure that our practice and its physicians
and staff have the necessary medical and PHI to provide the
highest degree possible. Patient should not fear about providing
information to our practice and its physicians and staff for
purpose of treatment, payment and healthcare operation (TPO).
To that end, our practice and its physicians and staff will…
- Adhere to
the standards set forth in the Notice of Privacy Practices.
- Collect, use and disclose PHI only
in conformance with state and federal laws and current patients
covenants and/or authorizations, as appropriate. Our practice
and its physicians and staff will not use or disclose PHI
for uses outside of practice's TPO, such as marketing, employment,
life insurance applications, etc. without an authorization
from the patient.
- Use and disclose PHI to remind patients
of their appointments only within their consent.
- Recognize that PHI collected about
patients must be accurate, timely, complete and available
when needed. Our practice and its physicians and staff will
implement reasonable measures to protect the integrity of
all PHI maintained about patients.
- Recognize that patients have a right
to privacy. Our practice and its physicians and staff respect
the patient's individual dignity at all times. Our practice
and its physicians and staff will respect patient's privacy
to the extent consistent with administration of the facility.
- Act as responsible information
stewards and treat all PHI as sensitive and confidential.
Consequently, our practice and it physicians and staff will
- Treat all PHI data as confidential
in accordance with professional ethics, accreditation
standards, and legal requirements.
- Not disclose PHI data unless
the patient or his or her authorized representative
has properly consented to or authorized the release
or the release is otherwise authorized by law.
- Recognize that, although our
practice "owns" the medical record, the patient
has a right to inspect and obtain a copy of his/her PHI.
In addition, patients have a right to request and amendment
to his/her medical record if he/she believe his/her information
is inaccurate or incomplete. Our practice and its physicians
and staff will…
- Permit patients access to their
medical records when their written requests are approved
by our practice. If we deny their request, then we must
inform the patients that they may request a review of
our denial. In such cases, we will have an on-site healthcare
professions review the patients appeals.
- Provide patients an opportunity
to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete
PHI in their medical records in accordance with the
law and professional standards.
- All physicians and staff of our practice
will maintain a list of all disclosures of PHI for purposes
other than TPO for each patient. We will provide this list
to patient upon request, so long as their requests are in
writing.
- All physicians and staff of our practice
will adhere to any restrictions concerning the use or disclosure
of PHI that patients have requested and have been approved
by our practice.
- All physicians and staff of our practice
must adhere to this policy. Our practice will not tolerate
violations of this policy. Violation of this policy is grounds
for disciplinary actions, up to and including termination
of employment and criminal or professional sanctions in
accordance with our practice's personnel rules and regulation.
- Our practice my change this privacy
policy in the future. Any changes will be effective upon
the release of a revised privacy policy and will be made
available to patients upon request.
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