Protecting Your Privacy and Your Safety
HIPAA, the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," or "The Kennedy- Kassebauma Act" is a federal law that requires every health care facility that processes insurance electronically to give patients information regarding that facility's privacy practices. We must provice this Notice to each patient beginning no later than the date of our first service delivery to the patient, including service delivered electronically, after April 14, 2003. We must make a good-faith effort to obtain written acknowledgement of receipt of the Notice from the patient. We must also have the Notice available at the office for patients to request to take with them. We must post the Notice in our office in a clear and prominent location where it is reasonable to expect any patients seeking service from us to be able to read the Notice. Whenever the Notice is revised, we must make the Notice available upon request on or after the effective date of the revision in a manner consistent with the above instructions. Thereafter, we must distribute the Notice to each new patient at the time of our service delivery and to any person requesting a Notice. We must also post the revised Notice in our office as discussed above.
Click below to view our "Notice of Privacy Practices."
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Below is the form HIPAA requires us to ask you to sign AFTER you have read and reviewed the above Notice. Please remember that this a Federal Law and you will, in all liklihood, be encountering this type of paperwork at your medical doctor, chiropractor, podiatrist, opthamologist and any health care facility that you may visit. You may have already received "Privacy Statements" from your bank, auto insurer, credit card company, etc. Ours is the same sort of Notice - the only difference is that we are required by law to make a good-faith effort to obtain proof (in the form of a signature) that you have been shown our "Privacy Practices."
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