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Privacy Policy and Practices
A NOTICE TO OUR PATIENTS ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND PRACTICES
At Trinity Family Health Clinic, PS, we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your personal financial and health information. Federal law requires us to inform you of our policy and practices as long as we provide products and services to you. From time to time, we may need to revise our policy and practices. We will inform you of such changes that may affect your rights.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Trinity Family Health Clinic, PS will protect your personal information in a variety of ways. For example, we authorize individuals to access your personal information only to the extent necessary to conduct our business of serving you, such as paying your claims. We take steps to secure our building from unauthorized access. We train our employees on our written confidentiality policy and procedures and employees are subject to discipline if they violate them. When we share information with insurance companies, other clinicians or other third parties, they are also required to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information. Our privacy polices and practices apply equally to current and former patients, so you can be assured that we will maintain the confidentiality of your information even if you no longer have a relationship with us.
INFORMATION WE MAY OBTAIN
We obtain your personal information that we need to:
- Offer or provide you with products and services
- Conduct our normal business functions
- Comply with the law
Examples of your personal financial and health information include your name, social security number, address, telephone number, account number, employment, medical history, health records, claims information, prescriptions, diagnoses, charges, etc. We obtain most of your personal information directly from you or from your exchanges with other parties. This includes information provided to us on the paperwork. We may also obtain information from third parties related to your medical history and other personal information. These third parties may include health care providers and other health plans or insurers and state and federal agencies.
INFORMATION WE MAY DISCLOSE
We may disclose the personal information we obtain about you as described above with other clinicians or with third parties for our normal business functions. Examples of how Trinity Family Health Clinic, PS may serve you in normal business functions include:
- Processing charges for services and products
- Billing (when applicable)
- Product or service notifications
- Reminder cards
Trinity Family Health Clinic may also disclose your personal information as permitted or required by law.
AUTHORIZATION
There may be times when we would like to release your personal information for other business functions. At those times, and before we disclose it, we will ask you to provide us with written approval that can be revoked at any time.
Thank you for being a patient of Trinity Family Health Clinic, PS!
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