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This privacy noticediscloses the privacy practices for this website of Andler Dental. We are thesole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access tocollect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other directcontact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We willuse your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us.Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tellyou about new services, for marketing purposes, or changes to this privacypolicy. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you shouldcontact us immediately.
Revision Number: 1
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBESHOW YOUR MEDICAL/DENTAL INFORMATION MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CANGET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
Andler Dental isrequired by law to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices(hereafter: “Notice”) so that you will understand how we may use or share yourinformation from your Designated Record Set. The Designated Record Setincludes financial and health information referred to in this Notice as“Protected Health Information” (“PHI”) or simply “health information.” We arerequired to adhere to the terms outlined in this Notice. If you have anyquestions about this Notice, please contact our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
Each time you are admitted to our Facility, a record of your stay is made containing health and financial information. Typically, this record contains information about your condition, the treatment we provide and payment for the treatment. We may use and/or disclose this information to:
Understanding what is in your record and how your health information is used helps you to:
The following categories describe the ways that we use and disclose health information. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed. However, all of the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall into one of the categories.
We may use or disclose health information about you to provide you with medical treatment. We may disclose health information about you to Andler Dental personnel who are involved in taking care of you at our Facility. Different departments at Andler Dental may share health information about you in order to coordinate your care. We may also disclose health information about you to people outside the Facility who may be involved in your care after you leave a Facility. This may include family members.
We may use and disclose health information about you so that the treatment and services you receive at Andler Dental may be billed to you, an insurance company or a third party. For example, in order to be paid, we may need to share information with your dental plan about services provided to you. We may also tell your dental plan about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior approval or to determine whether your plan will cover the treatment.
We may use and disclose health information about you for our day-to-day health care operations. This is necessary to ensure that all patients receive quality care. For example, we may use health/dental information for quality assessment and improvement activities and for developing and evaluating clinical protocols.
We may also combine health/dental information about many patients to help determine what additional services we should offer, what services should be discontinued, and whether certain new treatments are effective. Health/dental information about you may be used for business development and planning, cost management analyses, insurance claims management, risk management activities, and in developing and testing information systems and programs. We may also use and disclose information for professional review, performance evaluation, and for training programs.
Other aspects of health care operations that may require use and disclosure of your health information include accreditation, certification, licensing and credentialing activities, review and auditing, including compliance reviews, medical reviews, legal services and compliance programs. Your health/dental information may be used and disclosed for the business management and general activities of Andler Dental including resolution of internal grievances and customer service.
In limited circumstances, we may disclose your health information to another entity subject to HIPAA for its own health/dental care operations. We may remove information that identifies you so that the health/dental information may be used to study health/dental care and health/dental care delivery without learning the identities of patients.
There may be some services provided at Andler Dental through contracts with business associates. When these services are contracted, we may disclose your health/dental information so that they can perform the job we’ve asked them to do and bill you or your third-party payer for services rendered. To protect your health/dental information, however, we require the business associate to appropriately safeguard your information.
We may use and disclose health/dental information to tell you about possible treatment options or alternatives that may be of interest to you.
We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment alternatives or other health/dental-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.
Unless you object, we may disclose health/dental information about you to a friend or family member who is involved in your care. We may also give information to someone who helps pay for your care. In addition, we may disclose health information about you to an entity assisting in a disaster relief effort so that your family can be notified about your condition, status and location.
We will disclose health/dental information about you when required to do so by federal, state or local law.
We may use and disclose health/dental information about you to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. We would do this only to help prevent the threat.
If you are an organ donor, we may disclose health/dental information to organizations that handle organ procurement to facilitate donation and transplantation.
If you are a member of the armed forces, we may disclose health/dental information about you as required by military authorities. We may also disclose health/dental information about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority.
Under certain circumstances, we may use and disclose health information about you for research purposes. For example, a research project may involve comparing the health and recovery of all patients who received one medication to those who received another, for the same condition. All research projects, however, are subject to a special approval process. This process evaluates a proposed research project and its use of health/dental information, trying to balance the research needs with patients’ need for privacy of their health/dental information. Before we use or disclose health/dental information for research, the project will have been approved through this research approval process. We may, however, disclose health/dental information about you to people preparing to conduct a research project so long as the health/dental information they review does not leave a Facility.
We may disclose health/dental information about you for workers’ compensation or similar programs. These programs provide benefits for work-related injuries or illness.
Reporting Federal and state laws may require or permit Andler Dental to disclose certain health/dental information related to the following:
We may disclose health/dental information about you for public health purposes, including:
We may disclose health/dental information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities may include audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure. These activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with civil rights laws.
If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose health/dental information about you in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose health/dental information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.
Notifying the appropriate government agency if we believe a patient has been the victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence.
We may disclose health/dental information when requested by a law enforcement official:
We may disclose medical information to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. We may also disclose medical information to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties.
We may disclose health/dental information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities authorized by law.
Should you be an inmate of a correctional institution, we may disclose to the institution or its agents health/dental information necessary for your health and the health and safety of others.
Other uses and disclosures of health/dental information not covered by this Notice or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written permission. If you provide us permission to use or disclose health/dental information about you, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose health/dental information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization. You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures we have already made with your permission, and that we are required to retain our records of the care that we provided to you.
Although your health/dental record is the property of Andler Dental, the information belongs to you. You have the following rights regarding your health information:
Right to Inspect and Copy
With some exceptions, you have the right to review and copy your health information.
You must submit your request in writing to our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
We may charge a fee for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request.
Right to Amend
If you feel that health/dental information in your record is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information. You have this right for as long as the information is kept by or for the Andler Dental.
You must submit your request in writing to our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
In addition, you must provide a reason for your request.
We may deny your request for an amendment if it is not in writing or does not include a reason to support the request. In addition, we may deny your request if you ask us to amend information that:
You have the right to request an “accounting of disclosures”. This is a list of certain disclosures we made of your health information, other than those made for purposes such as treatment, payment, or health care operations.
You must submit your request in writing to our HIPAA Compliance Officer. Your request must state a time period which may not be longer than six years from the date the request is submitted and may not include dates before April 14, 2003. Your request should indicate in what form you want the list (for example, on paper or electronically). The first list you request within a twelve-month period will be free. For additional lists, we may charge you for the costs of providing the list. We will notify you of the cost involved and you may choose to withdraw or modify your request at that time before any costs are incurred.
You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on the health/dental information we use or disclose about you. For example, you may request that we limit the health/dental information we disclose to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care. You could ask that we not use or disclose information about a surgery you had to a family member or friend.
We are not required to agree to your request. If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you emergency treatment.
You must submit your request in writing to our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
In your request, you must tell us:
1. what information you want to limit
2. whether you want to limit our use, disclosure or both
3. to whom you want the limits to apply, for example, disclosures to your spouse
Right to Request Alternate Communications
You have the right to request that we communicate with you about medical/dental matters in a confidential manner or at a specific location. For example, you may ask that we only contact you via mail to a post office box.
You must submit your request in writing to our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
We will not ask you the reason for your request. Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted. We will accommodate all reasonable requests.
You have the right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices even if you have agreed to receive the Notice electronically. You may ask us to give you a copy of this Notice at any time.
We reserve the right to change this Notice. We reserve the right to make the revised or changed Notice effective for health/dental information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. We will post a copy or put in a bound book of the current Notice in the Facility and on the website. The Notice will specify the effective date on the first page, in the top right-hand corner. In addition, if material changes are made to this Notice, the Notice will contain an effective date for the revisions and copies can be obtained by contacting the Facility administrator.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with Andler Dental or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
To file a complaint with the Andler Dental, contact our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
All complaints must be submitted in writing. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.
CONTACT US
If you wish to contact us regarding the terms in this Notice, please contact:
Name: Jamie C.
Phone Number: 608-831-3236
Email: jamie@andlerdental.com