What is Protected Health Information (PHD)?
Our practice values your privacy and is committed to protecting medical information about you. Protected Health Information, or PHI, is ANY HEALTH INFORMATION that can be used to identify you, which we maintain or transmit in written, oral, or electronic form. It may relate to your past, present, or future medical health or services. This Notice of Privacy Practices tells you how we may use and disclose your PHI that deals with your Treatment, Payment or Health Care Operations (TPO), or for other lawful purposes. It also describes your rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (Public Law 104-191). This notice is EFFECTIVE April 14,2003. We will abide by all terms of this notice as required by HIPAA including our right to change the terms of this notice, at any time. Any changes will be effective for your entire PHI that we maintain at the time of the change. We will prominently post any notice of changes in our office lobby and on our web sit
