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A. Notice of Privacy Practices
As required by privacy Regulations created as a result of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 (HIPAA).
This notice describes how Health information about you,
the patient, may be used and disclosed, and how you can get
access to your individually identifiable health information.
Please read this information carefully
Cardiology Consultants, P.A. is dedicated to maintaining
the privacy of your health information. In conducting our
business, we will create records regarding you and the
treatment and services necessary to keep you in good health.
We are required by law to keep your health care information
confidential. We are also required by law to provide you
with this notice of our legal responsibilities. According
to federal and state laws, and without your authorization,
we can use your private health information for the items
listed below.
Your individual health information will be used for your
treatment, for instance: laboratory testing results and examination
findings will be used for reaching a diagnosis.
We will also use this information for billing and collecting
payments on your account. From time to time, it will be necessary
for us to contact your insurance carrier regarding payment
and may need to provide your carrier with details regarding
your health.
And finally your health information will be used for Health
care operations. It may be necessary for us to disclose your
information to evaluate the quality of your care and if your
treatment proved effective, or to help us conduct cost-management
and business planning activities for our practice.
Our staff members are trained to maintain your confidentiality
during your visits to our practice, however, by federal and
state laws, we are obligated to disclose your private information
for certain reasons, without your consent. Those reasons
may be for Public health risks, lawsuits donations, military
requests or serious threats to our nations health or security.
You have the following rights regarding your personal health
care information:
1. The right for confidential communications, i.e. may
we leave messages pertaining to our health with other family
members or on an answering machine.
2. The right to inspect and copy any or all of your information,
however your request must be done in writing, and a fee may
be charged.
3. The right to a paper copy of this notice.
4. The right to file a complaint if you believe your privacy
rights have been violated.
5. The right to provide us with an amendment to your authorization
at any time, if you have authorized us usage of your health
information for reasons other than treatment, payment or
health care operations.
We will continue to evaluate our efforts to protect your
personal information and make every effort to keep your personal
information accurate and up to date. If at any time we modify
this notice we will provide you with advance notice of the
changes and allow you the opportunity to opt out of such
disclosure.
If you have any questions regarding this notice or our health
information privacy policies, please speak to any member
of our health care team. Thank you.
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B. Site Disclaimer
Before beginning any new treatment or to get answers to any questions about
any medical condition, always be sure to first consult your cardiologist or other health
care provider.
Any and
all use of the information in this Web site, as well as the use of the Web site
itself, is solely at your own risk. The medical information provided on this Web
site, as well as the medical information on any other Web site linked to from
this site, is for informational purposes only. Such medical information is
designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a
patient (and/or the patient's family members or legal guardian, as applicable)
and
his/her cardiologist and other health care providers. Cardiology Consultants,
P.A. will not be responsible for the
consequences of your decision to utilize the medical information contained in
this Web site and/or on any other site linked to from this site.
Under this
Agreement, you may use this Web site only for your personal lawful purposes. You
may not transmit, modify, distribute or in any way use the contents of this Web
site or information accessed by this Web site for any public or business use
without specific prior written consent of Cardiology Consultants, P.A.
This Web site may collect and track statistical data from its server about
visitors to this site in order to help improve the content of this site. For
each visitor, this data may include which pages were visited, type of operating
system and browser used, the name of the visitor's Internet Service Provider, as
well as the visitor's length of visit to this site. All
information collected will be held in complete confidence, and our policy is not
to share information with third parties for any reason, unless we are legally
required to do so.
Please
contact us with any questions that you may have about our
privacy policy or use of information collected by this Web
site.
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