Privacy Notice
GENERAL RULE:
We respect our legal obligaton to keep health information, (HI) that identifies you, private. The law obligates us to give you notice of our privacy practices.
Generally, we can only use your health information in our office or disclose it outside of our office, without your written permission, for purposes of treatment, payment or healthcare operations. In most other situations, we will not use or disclose your health information unless you sign a written authorization form. In some limited situations, the law allows or requires us to disclose your health information without written authorization.
USES OR DISCLOSURES OF HEALTH INFORMATION:
Setting up appointments, technician or doctor tests your eyes, prescribing glasses or contact lenses, prescribing medication, staff helping you select and/or order glasses or contact lenses. We may disclose your HI outside our office for treatment purposes if we refer you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or service, send a prescription for glasses or contact lenses to another professional to be filled, prescription for medication to pharmacy, or to phone to let you know your eyewear is ready for pickup.
Sometimes we may ask for copies of your HI from another professional that you may have seen before.
We may use your HI within our office or disclose your HI outside our office for payment purposes.
We use and disclose your HI for healthcare operations in a number of ways. Healthcare operations mean those administrative and managerial functions that we have to do in order to run our office. We may use or disclose your HI, for example, for financial or billing audits, for internal quality assurance, for personnel decisions, to enable our doctors to participate in managed care plans, for the defense of legal matters, to develop business plans, and for outside storage of our records.
We may call, or mail a postcard, to remind you of scheduled appointments. We may also call to notify you of other treatments or services available at our office that might help you.
We will not use or disclose your HI other than the above mentioned without a written authorization form. You do not have to sign such a form. If you do sign one, you may revoke it at any time unless we have already acted in reliance upon it.
YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION
The law gives you many rights regarding your health information. (HI) Please call our office, or stop in and a written notice of your rights will be provided to you.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you want more information about our privacy practices, call or visit our office.
We respect our legal obligaton to keep health information, (HI) that identifies you, private. The law obligates us to give you notice of our privacy practices.
Generally, we can only use your health information in our office or disclose it outside of our office, without your written permission, for purposes of treatment, payment or healthcare operations. In most other situations, we will not use or disclose your health information unless you sign a written authorization form. In some limited situations, the law allows or requires us to disclose your health information without written authorization.
USES OR DISCLOSURES OF HEALTH INFORMATION:
Setting up appointments, technician or doctor tests your eyes, prescribing glasses or contact lenses, prescribing medication, staff helping you select and/or order glasses or contact lenses. We may disclose your HI outside our office for treatment purposes if we refer you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or service, send a prescription for glasses or contact lenses to another professional to be filled, prescription for medication to pharmacy, or to phone to let you know your eyewear is ready for pickup.
Sometimes we may ask for copies of your HI from another professional that you may have seen before.
We may use your HI within our office or disclose your HI outside our office for payment purposes.
We use and disclose your HI for healthcare operations in a number of ways. Healthcare operations mean those administrative and managerial functions that we have to do in order to run our office. We may use or disclose your HI, for example, for financial or billing audits, for internal quality assurance, for personnel decisions, to enable our doctors to participate in managed care plans, for the defense of legal matters, to develop business plans, and for outside storage of our records.
We may call, or mail a postcard, to remind you of scheduled appointments. We may also call to notify you of other treatments or services available at our office that might help you.
We will not use or disclose your HI other than the above mentioned without a written authorization form. You do not have to sign such a form. If you do sign one, you may revoke it at any time unless we have already acted in reliance upon it.
YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION
The law gives you many rights regarding your health information. (HI) Please call our office, or stop in and a written notice of your rights will be provided to you.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you want more information about our privacy practices, call or visit our office.
