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Page 1 of 5 Notice of Privacy Practice for Protected Health InformationThis 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!
Primary Care Associates, LLC is permitted by federal privacy laws to
make uses and disclosures of your health information for purposes of
treatment, payment, and health care operations. Protected health
information is the information we create and obtain in providing our
services to you. Such information may include documenting your
symptoms, examination, and test results, diagnoses, treatment, and
applying for future care or treatment. It also includes billing
documents for those services.
Examples of Uses of Your Health Information for Treatment Purposes are:
- A nurse obtains treatment information about you and records it in a health record.
- During the course of your treatment, the physician determines
he/she will need to consult with another specialist in the area. He/she
will share the information with such specialist and obtain his/her
input.
Example of Use of Your Health Information for Payment Purposes:
- We submit requests for payment to your health insurance company.
The health insurance company (or other business associate helping us
obtain payment) requests information from us regarding medical care
given. We will provide information to them about you and the care given.
Example of Use of Your Information for Health Care Operations:
- We obtain services from our insurers or other business associates
such as quality assessment, quality improvement, outcome evaluation,
protocol and clinical guideline development, training programs,
credentialing, medical review, legal services, and insurance. We will
share information about you with such insurers or other business
associates as necessary to obtain these services.
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HIPAA Info
