HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Legal Duty
Eby Dental Care is required by law to protect the privacy of your personal health information,
provide this notice about our information practices and follow the information practices that are
described herein.
Uses and Disclosures of Health Information
Eby Dental Care uses your personal health information primarily for treatment, obtaining
payment for treatment, conducting internal administration and evaluating the quality of care that
we provide. Some examples of uses of your personal health information may include, but are not
limited to, the following: (1) Contacting you by telephone/mail and leaving a message if necessary
to provide or obtain information regarding appointments, your treatment, your patient account,
treatment alternatives or other health related benefits and services that we offer, and/or company
news; (2) Obtaining information from your referral source in order to schedule an appointment
and to verify/authorize insurance benefits, (3) Announcing your arrival to the therapist in an area
where others may hear the information, (4) Calling out your name in the waiting area, (5) Placing
your encounter form and/or medical record in a slot beside your treatment room door, (6)
Treating you in an open area where conversations between you and your therapist may be
overheard buy other patients and staff, (7) Sharing information as needed with other health care
providers involved in your care, (8) Performing quality assurance tasks such as chart review and
outcomes analysis, (9) Forwarding information to your insurance carrier in order to receive
payment on claims (after obtaining your Medical Records Release and Insurance Assignments),
and/or (10) Sharing information to insurers and other entities involved in your workers’
compensation case as authorized by law.
Eby Dental Care may also use or disclose your personal health information without prior
authorization for public health purposes, for auditing purposes, for research studies and for
emergencies. We also provide information when required by law.
In any other situation, Eby Dental Care’s policy is to obtain your written authorization before
disclosing your personal information. If you provide us with a written authorization to release
information for any reason you may later revoke that authorization to stop future discloses at any
time.
Patient’s Individual Rights
You have the right to review or obtain a copy of your personal health information at any time.
You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete information in your
records. You also have the right to request a list of instances where we have disclosed your
personal health information for reasons other than treatment, payment or other related
administrative purposes.
You may request in writing that we not use or disclose your personal health information for
treatment, payment and administrative purposes except when specifically authorized by you,
when required by law or in an emergency circumstance. Eby Dental Care will consider all such
requests on a case-by- case basis, but the practice is not legally required to accept them
The undersigned acknowledges receipt of Eby Dental Care’s HIPAA Notice and Financial Policy