As per HIPAA rules and regulations, you are required to inform this office how you wish us to communicate with you in regards to your Personal Health Information (PHI At times we may need to contact you to confirm your appointment,schedule surgery, return your phone calls, or to give you results of labs, x-rays, scans, or consultations. We are required to follow your written instructions specifically, except where we feel following the instruction would be detrimental to your health or in case of emergency. Please be very specific as to how we are to reach you, where we can leave a message, and with whom. You may change your decision at any time by filing a request for change with our office manager at 100 Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 Fax - 631-226-4659
The Department of Health and Human Services has established a "Privacy Rule" to help in sure that personal health care information is protected for privacy. The Privacy Rule was also created in order to provide a standard for certain health care providers to obtain their patients ' consent for uses and disclosures of health information about the patient to carry our treatment, payments, or health care operations. As our patient we want you to known that we respect the privacy of your personal medical records and will do all we can to secure and protect your privacy. We strive to always take reasonable precautions to protect your privacy. When it is appropriate and necessary, we provide the minimum necessary information to only those we fell are in need of your health care information, information about treatment, payment, or health care operations, in order to provide health care that is in your best interest. We also want you to know that we support your full access to your personal medical records. WE may have indirect treatment relationships with you (such as laboratories that only interact with physicians and not patients), and may have to disclose personal health information for purposes of treatment, payment, or health care operations. These entities are most often not required to obtain patient consent. You may refuse to consent to the use or disclosure of your personal health information, but this must be in writing. Under this law, we have the right to refuse to treat you should you choose to refuse to disclose your Personal Health Information (PHI If you choose to give consent in this document, at some future time you may request to refuse all or part of your PHI. You may not revoke actions that have already been taken. which relied on this or a previously signed consent. If you have any other objections to this form, please speak with our HIPAA Compliance Officer. You have the right to review our privacy notice, to request restrictions, and revoke consent in writing after you have reviewed our privacy notice.
Compliance and Assurance Notification for Our Patients
The misuse of Personal Health Information (PHI) has been identified as a national problem causing patients inconvenience, aggravation, and money. We want you to know that all of our employees, managers. and doctors continually undergo training so that they may understand and comply with government rules and regulations regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with particular emphasis on the . Privac) Rule." We strive to achieve the very highest standards of ethnics and integrity in performing services for our patients. It is our policy to properly determine appropriate uses of PHI in accordance with the governmental rules, laws, and regulations. We want to ensure that our practice never contributes in any way to the growing problem of improper disclosure of PHI. As part of this plan, we have implemented a Compliance Program that we believe will help us prevent any inappropriate use of PHI. We also know that we are not perfect! Because of this fact, our policy is to listen to our employees and our patients without any though of penalization ifthey feel that an event in any way compromises our policy of integrity. More so, we welcome your input regarding any service problem so that we may remedy the situation promptly. Thank you for being one of our highly valued patients.