Policies and Procedures/ Hippa

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Policies and Procedures/HIPAA

This contract contains information about our services and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).  HIPAA is a new federal law that provides privacy protections and patient rights with regard to the use and disclosure of your Protected Health Information (PHI) used for the purpose of treatment, payment, and health care operations. A Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) is attached to this contract and explains HIPAA in greater detail. The law requires that we obtain your signature acknowledging that we provided you with this information. Signing this agreement also represents an agreement between us. You may revoke this contract in writing at any time which will be binding on us unless we have taken action in reliance on it; if there are obligations imposed on us by your health insurer in order to process claims; or if you have not satisfied any financial obligations you have incurred.

HIPAA provides you with several rights with regard to your Medical Records and disclosures of PHI. These rights include requesting that we amend your record; requesting restrictions on what information from your Medical Records is disclosed to others; requesting an accounting of most disclosures of protected health information that you have neither consented to nor authorized; determining the location to which protected information disclosures are sent; having any complaints you make about our policies and procedures recorded in your records; and the right to a paper copy of this contract, the attached NPP form, and our privacy policies and procedures. We are happy to discuss any of these rights with you.