Privacy Notice
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information. We are also required to give you this Notice about our privacy practices.
We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this Notice at any time. Before we make a significant change in our privacy practices, we will notify patients of record and make the new Notice available upon request.
You may request a copy of our Notice at any time. For more information about our privacy practices or for additional copies of this Notice, please contact our office.
USES AND DISCLOSURES OF HEALTH INFORMATION
We use and disclose health information about you for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations. For Example:
Treatment: We may use or disclose your health information to a physician, dentist, or other healthcare provider providing treatment to you. Communication with other providers is key to the successful outcome of your treatment.
Payment: We submit claims to insurance carriers for our treatment and disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you. We provide information to them regarding previous and current treatment.
Healthcare Operations: We may use and disclose your health information in connection with our healthcare operations. Healthcare operations include quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of healthcare professionals, evaluating practitioner and provider performance, conducting training programs, accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities.
Your Authorization: In addition to our use of your health information for treatment, payment or healthcare operations, you may give us written authorization to use your health information or to disclose it to anyone for any purpose. If you give us authorization, you may revoke it in writing at any time. Your revocation will not affect any use of disclosures permitted by your authorization while it was in effect. Unless you give us written authorization, we cannot use or disclose your health information for any reason except those described in this Notice.
To Your Family and Friends: We must disclose your health information to you, as described in the Patient Rights section of this Notice. We may disclose your health information to a family member, friend, or other person to the extent necessary to help with your healthcare or with payment for your healthcare, but only if you agree that we may do so.
Persons Involved in Care: We may use or disclose health information to notify or assist in the notification of (including identifying or locating) a family member, your personal representative, or another person responsible for your care of your location, your general condition, or death. If you are present, we will provide you with an opportunity to object to such uses or disclosures. In the event of your incapacity or emergency circumstances, we will disclose health information based on a determination using our professional judgment, disclosing only health information that is directly relevant to the person’s involvement in your healthcare. We will also use our professional judgment and our experience with common practice to make reasonable inferences of your best interest in allowing a person to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, X-rays, or other similar forms of health information.
Marketing Health-Related Services: We may notify our patients via email or mail about new dental procedures or products. We do not share patient names or addresses with any other businesses for their marketing purposes.