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NOTICE
OF PRIVACY PRACTICES THIS
NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND
DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE
REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. Keeping
your health information confidential and secure and using it only as
permitted by law is a top priority of Nassau Radiologic Group. You have the right to know how Nassau Radiologic Group uses
and disclosures your health information.
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA),
Nassau Radiologic Group can use your health information for Treatment,
Payment and Health Care Operations. In
connection with “Treatment”, we may use or disclose your health
information to other physicians or other healthcare providers who may be
treating you. This may
include, for example, our provision of state of the art password protected
electronic access to your films via a secured website to other physicians
who might require access to them. In
connection with “Payment”, we may use and disclose your health
information to facilitate payment by health insurers.
In connection with “Health Care Operations”, we may use and
disclose your health information to facilitate our business operations,
for example, quality assessment activities, reviewing the competency or
qualifications of healthcare professionals, and licensing or credentialing
activities. We may also
contact you by telephone to remind you of appointments.
Certain
uses and disclosures that do not fall under Treatment, Payment, or Health
Care Operations will require your written authorization.
For example, if you would like us to send information to an
employer, your written authorization may be required.
However, several kinds of disclosures do not require your written
authorization. We may contact
you to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment
alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of
interest to you. Where a third party is involved in your care and you wish for
that third party to be present during conversations about your health, you
may agree or permit us to disclose the health information to that
individual without written authorization.
We may use or disclose your health information when we are required
to do so by law. For example,
a government agency responsible for monitoring health care activities may
require us to disclose your health information to it. We
value our patients and the various rights afforded to them under federal
and state law to access health information.
To that end, we recognize and will accommodate patients’ rights
to restrict the disclosure of health information, if we agree to such
restriction. We will also
accommodate patients’ rights to receive confidential communications of
their health information, to inspect and copy their health information, to
amend their health information, to receive an accounting of disclosures of
their health information, and to receive a paper copy of this Notice of
Privacy Practices. Nassau
Radiologic Group values its patients.
In the event there are any issues or problems regarding the way
your health information was handled by us, you may submit them to us in
writing or to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
in Washington, D.C. You will
not be retaliated against in any manner for raising any issues.
We look forward to providing quality service to you and to ensuring
that your health information remains confidential. Effective as of April 14, 2003 |
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