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Effective Date of this Notice:\u00a0 06\/22\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU (AS A PATIENT OF THIS PRACTICE) MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED, AND HOW YOU CAN RECEIVE ACCESS TO YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our practice is dedicated to maintaining the privacy of your protected health information (PHI). In conducting our business, we will create records regarding you and the treatment and services we provide you. We are required by law to maintain the confidentiality of health information that identifies you. We also are required by law to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices that we maintain in our practice concerning your PHI. By federal and state law, we must follow the terms of the notice of privacy practices that we have in effect at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We realize that these laws are complicated, but we must provide you with the following important information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The terms of this notice apply to all records containing your PHI that are created or retained by our practice. We reserve the right to revise or amend this Notice of Privacy Practices. Any revision or amendment to this notice will be effective for all of your records that our practice has created or maintained in the past, and for any of your records that we may create or maintain in the future. Our practice will post a copy of our current Notice in our office in a visible location at all times, and you may request a copy of our most current Notice at any time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have any questions about this notice, please contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meredith Bishop 11)\u00a0 Health Oversight Activities.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may disclose your PHI to a health oversight agency for audits, investigations, inspections, and other activities necessary for the appropriate oversight of the health care system and the government benefit programs such as MaineCare and Medicare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12)\u00a0 Public Health Risks.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Audiology Center d\/b\/a Audiology Center of Maine may disclose your PHI to public health authorities that are authorized by law to collect information for the purpose of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n From time to time, you may request that Audiology Center d\/b\/a Audiology Center of Maine disclose your PHI to specified individuals or companies for a defined purpose and\/or timeframe. Also, you may authorize disclosures to individuals who are not involved in treatment, payment, or health care operations, such as attorneys, if you are involved in litigation either on your own or another\u2019s behalf. If you wish us to make disclosures in these situations, we will ask you to sign an \u201cAuthorization to Use and Disclose Protected Health Information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Audiology Center, LLC d\/b\/a Audiology Center of Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES<\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Each time you visit or call our office a record of this is made in your chart. Audiology Center, LLC d\/b\/a Audiology Center of Maine is committed to protecting the privacy of your health information. Federal laws now require us to put in place more formal policies and procedures to safeguard your medical records. This also includes other records, such as billing records that contain personal health information about you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These laws give you certain rights, such as the right to receive this notice outlining our privacy practices and your right to ask us for a current copy of this notice at any time. You have the right to ask to see and copy your records, ask us to change your records if they are incorrect or not complete. You may ask us for a listing of certain disclosures we may have made about you. If you think we violated your privacy, you may complain to us and\/or to the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to these basic rights, we will honor all reasonable requests you may have about when, where and how we may contact you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may request we make changes to our normal privacy practices. We will consider your requests, although the law does not require us to agree to every suggestion you have. We will, however, always tell you if we can make special arrangements to meet your needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The health information you give us, or that we create to treat you, is routinely used to bill you or your insurer and to operate our business in ways consistent with good patient care and sound practice management. Your records are seen, in whole or part, by staff members who need this information to do their jobs. When necessary, we may release your medical records to other health care providers involved in your care. We may also discuss some health information about you with relatives or friends who help with your care, if you agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may work with individuals and businesses that help us run our practice (for example: answering services, accountants, or billing consultants). Personal information about you may be disclosed to these business associates if they need the information to do their jobs. To protect your health information, we always include a provision on our contracts with these associates requiring them to put procedures in place to safeguard your records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We release personal health information about our patients when we are required to do so by federal, state or local laws. We may also release this information for a number of public policy reasons including public health reporting, law enforcement activities, judicial proceedings, workers\u2019 compensation, and certain types of records-based research. Whenever we release records for these reasons, we follow privacy safeguards suitable to the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will get a written authorization from you if we need to use or disclose your records for purposes other than those described above.\u00a0 You may revoke any authorizations you give us at any time, which must be done in writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Effective Date of this Notice:\u00a0 06\/22\/2018 Audiology Center, LLC d\/b\/a Audiology Center of Maine THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU (AS A PATIENT OF THIS PRACTICE) MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED, AND HOW YOU CAN RECEIVE ACCESS TO YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION. A. 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A. OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
77 Beechland Rd
Ellsworth, ME 04605
(207) 664-2123<\/p>\n\n\n\nB.\u00a0 WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION (PHI) IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
C.\u00a0 USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PHI IN CERTAIN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
D.\u00a0 USE AND DISCLOSURES OF PHI BASED UPON YOUR WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
E.\u00a0 YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PHI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
F.\u00a0 COMPLAINT PROCEDURE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n