Privacy Notice
We respect our legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give you notice of our privacy practices. This notice describes how we protect your health information and what rights you have regarding it.
The most common reason why we use or disclose your health information is for treatment, payment or health care operations.Example of how we use or disclose information for treatment purposes are: setting up an appointment for you testing or examining your eyes prescribing glasses, contact lenses, or eye medication and faxing them to be filled showing you low vision aids referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aide or services or getting copies or your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. examples of how we disclose your health information for payment purposes are: asking you about health and vision plans, or other sources of payment, preparing and sending bills or claims and collecting unpaid amounts. Health care operations mean those administrative and managerial functions the we have to do in order to run our office.
By law, we must abide by terms of this notice of Privacy Practice until we choose to change it. We reserve the right to change this notice at any time as allowed by law. If we change this notice, the new privacy practices will apply to your health information that we already have as well as to such information that we may generate in the future. If we change our Notice Of Privacy Practices, we will post the new notice in our office, and have copies available in our office.
The most common reason why we use or disclose your health information is for treatment, payment or health care operations.Example of how we use or disclose information for treatment purposes are: setting up an appointment for you testing or examining your eyes prescribing glasses, contact lenses, or eye medication and faxing them to be filled showing you low vision aids referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aide or services or getting copies or your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. examples of how we disclose your health information for payment purposes are: asking you about health and vision plans, or other sources of payment, preparing and sending bills or claims and collecting unpaid amounts. Health care operations mean those administrative and managerial functions the we have to do in order to run our office.
By law, we must abide by terms of this notice of Privacy Practice until we choose to change it. We reserve the right to change this notice at any time as allowed by law. If we change this notice, the new privacy practices will apply to your health information that we already have as well as to such information that we may generate in the future. If we change our Notice Of Privacy Practices, we will post the new notice in our office, and have copies available in our office.