ORTHOPAEDIC PHYSICIANS OF COLORADO, P.C.
799 East Hampden Avenue, Suite 400
Englewood, Colorado 80110
303.789.2663
NOTICE OF PRIVACY
PRACTICES
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
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 ("HIPAA") is a federal program that requires that all medical
records and other individually identifiable health information used or
disclosed by us in any form, whether electronically, on paper, or orally,
are kept properly confidential. This Act gives you, the patient,
significant new rights to understand and control how your health information
is used. "HIPAA" provides penalties for covered entities
that misuse personal health information.
As required by "HIPAA," we have prepared this explanation of
how we are required to maintain the privacy of your health information and
how we may use and disclose your health information.
We may use and disclose your medical records only for each of the
following purposes: treatment, payment and health care operations.
- Treatment means providing, coordinating, or managing health
care and related services by one or more health care providers. An
example of this would include physical therapy services.
- Payment means such activities as obtaining reimbursement for
services, confirming coverage, billing or collection activities, and
utilization review. An example of this would be sending a bill for
your visit to your insurance company for payment.
- Health care operations include the business aspects of running
our practice, such as conduction quality assessment and improvement
activities, auditing functions, cost-management analysis, and customer
service. An example would be an internal quality assessment
review.
We may also create and distribute de-identified health information by
removing all references to individually identifiable information.
We may contact you to provide appointment reminders of information about
treatment alternative or other health-related benefits and services that may
be of interest to you.
Any other uses and disclosures will be made only with your written
authorization. You may revoke such authorization in writing and we are
required to honor and abide by that written request, except to the extent
that we have already taken actions relying only on your authorization.
You have the following rights with respect to your protected health
information, which you can exercise by presenting a written request to our
Privacy Officer, John R. Strehlow, FACMPE.
- The right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of
protected health information, including those related to disclosures to
family members, other relatives, close personal friends, or any other
person identified by you. We are, however, not required to agree
to a requested restriction. If we do agree to a restriction, we
must abide by it unless you agree in writing to remove it.
- The right to reasonable requests to receive confidential
communications of protected health information from us by alternative
means or at alternative locations.
- The right to inspect and copy your protected health information.
- The right to amend your protected health information
- The right to receive an accounting of disclosures of protected health
information.
- The right to obtain a paper copy of this notice from us upon request.