Effective April 14, 2003, the federal law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPPA”) requires that this office comply with rules regarding the maintenance of the privacy of your information that we have collected and will collect in the future.
To comply with one of HIPPA’s requirements, we are giving you a copy of our Notice of Privacy Practices. This Notice of Privacy Practice contains the information that HIPPA requires us to disclose regarding our privacy practices.
Existing law requires (in addition to our attempt to obtain your written acknowledgment, discussed above) us to first obtain your written consent prior to disclose any of your information except for our information except for our disclosures in connection with: a defense to a claim challenging our professional competence; a review entity’s functions; a claim for payment of fees; a third party payer’s examination of our records, a court order as part of a criminal investigation; an identification of a dead body; a licensure Investigation; or a child abuse/neglect investigation.
For time to time it may be necessary for us to make disclosures of your information in connection with your treatment. For example, we may make a referral to or with another dentist or other health care professional, provide a specimen to a laboratory for testing, or otherwise make disclosures of your information in connection with providing or coordinating your treatment.