This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.
Dear Patient:
This is your Health Information Privacy Notice from Pain Management Services. Please read it carefully.
Pain Management and each member of the Pain Management staff strongly believe in protecting the confidentiality and security of information we collect about you. This notice refers to Pain Management using the terms "us," "we," or "our."
This notice describes how we protect the personal health information we have about you which relates to your treatment ("Personal Health Information"), and how we may use and disclose this information. Personal Health Information includes individually identifiable information which relates to your past, present or future health, treatment or payment for health care services. This notice also describes your rights with respect to personal health information and how you can exercise those rights.
We are required to provide this Notice to you by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA"). For additional information regarding our HIPAA Medical Information Privacy Policy or our general privacy policies, please write to us directly at Pain Management Attn: Privacy Officer, 339 Consort Drive, Ballwin, MO 63011-4439.
We are required by law to:
- Maintain the privacy of your Personal Health Information
- Provide you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your Personal Health Information
- Follow the terms of this notice.
We protect your Personal Health Information from inappropriate use or disclosure. Our employees, and those of companies that help us, are required to comply with our requirements that protect the confidentiality of Personal Health Information. They may look at your Personal Health Information only when there is an appropriate reason to do so.
We will not disclose your Personal Health Information to any other company for their use in marketing their products to you. However, as described below, we will use and disclose Personal Health Information about you for business purposes.