GENTILE DENTAL CARE

    Gentile Dental Care
    89 Grand Avenue
    Massapequa, NY 11758
    (516) 639-6975

    Notice of Privacy Practices


    This notice describes how health information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully. The privacy of your health information is important to us here at Gentile Dental Care.

    Our Legal Duty


    We are required by applicable federal and state law to maintain the privacy of your health information. We are
    also required to give you this notice about our privacy practices, our legal duties, and your rights concerning your health information. We must follow the privacy practices that are described in this notice while it in effect. This notice takes effect on April 14, 2003, and will remain in effect until we replace it. We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this notice at any time, provided such changes are permitted by applicable law. We reserve the right to make the changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our notice effective for all health information that we maintain, including health information we created or received before we made the changes. Before we make a significant change in our privacy practices, we will change this notice and make the new notice upon request. You may request a copy of our notice at any time. For more information about or privacy practices, or for additional copies of this notice, please contact the Practice Administrator of this office.

    Uses and disclosures of health information


    We use and disclose health information about you for treatment, payment and healthcare operations. For
    example,

    Treatment: We may use or disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you.

    Payment: We may use or disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you.

    Healthcare Operations: We may use or disclose your health information in connection with our healthcare operations. Healthcare operations include quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of healthcare professionals, evaluating practitioner and providing performance conducting training programs, accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities. However nothing in this section requires Gentile Dental Care to oversee, supervise or dictate the professional activities of duly licensed dental professionals.

    Your Authorization: In addition to our use of your health information for treatment, payment or healthcare operation, you may give us written authorization to use your health information or to disclose it to anyone for any purpose. If you give us an authorization, you may revoke it in writing at any time. Your revocation will not affect any use or disclosures permitted by your authorization while it was in effect. Unless you give us a written authorization, we cannot use or disclose your health information for any reason except those described in this notice.

    To Your Family and Friends: We must disclose your health information to you, as described in the Patient Rights section of this notice. We may disclose your health information to a family member, friend or other person to the extent necessary to help you with your healthcare or with payment for your healthcare, but only if you agree that we may do so.

    Persons involved In Care: We may use or disclose health information to notify, assist in the notification of (including identifying or locating) a family member, your personal representative or another person reasonable for your care, of your location, your general condition, or death. If you are present, then prior to use or disclosure of your health information, we will provide you with an opportunity to object to such use or disclosures. In the event of your incapacity or emergency circumstances, we will disclose health information based on a determination using our professional judgement disclosing only health information that is directly relevant to the person's involvement in your healthcare. We will also use our professional judgement and our experience with common practice to make reasonable inferences of your best interest in allowing a person to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, x-rays or other similar forms of health information.

    Marketing Health-Related Services: We will not use your health information for marketing communications without your written consent.

    Required By Law: We may use or disclose your health information when we are required to do so by law.

    Abuse or Neglect: We will disclose your health information to appropriate authorities if we reasonably believe that you are the possible victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence or the possible victim of other crimes. We may disclose your health information or the extent necessary to avert a serious threat to your health or safety or the health or safety or the health or safety of others.

    National Security: We may disclose to authorities the health information of Armed Forces personnel under certain circumstances. We may disclose to authorized federal officials health information required for lawful intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities. We may disclose to correctional institutions or law enforcement officials having lawful custody of protected health information of inmate or patient under certain circumstances.

    Appointment reminders: We may use or disclose your heath information to provide you with appointment reminders (such as voice mail messages, e-mail, postcards or letters).

    PATIENT RIGHTS

    Access: You have the right to look at or get copies of health information, with limited exceptions. You may request that we provide copies in a format other than photocopies. We will use the format you request unless we cannot practicably do so. (You must make a request in writing to obtain access to your healthcare information. You may obtain a form to request access by using the contact information listed at the end of this notice. We will charge you a reasonable cost-based fee for expenses such as copies and staff time to locate and copy your health information, and postage if you want the copies mailed to you. If you request an alternative format, we will charge you a cost-based fee for providing your health information in that format. If you prefer, we will prepare a summary or an explanation of your health information for a fee. Contact us using the information listed at the end of this notice for full explanation of our fee structure.)

    Disclosure Accounting: You have the right to receive a list of instances in which we or our business associates disclosed your health confirmation for purposes, other than treatment, payment, healthcare operations and certain other activities, for the last 6 years, but before April 14, 2003. If you request this account more than once in a 12 month period, we may charge you a reasonable, cost-based fee for responding to these addition, requests.

    Restrictions: You have the right to request that we place additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your health information. We are not required to agree to these additional restrictions, but if we do, we will abide by our agreement (except in an emergency).

    Alternative Communications: You have the right to request that we communicate with you about your health information by alternative means or to alternative locations. (You must make your request in writing.) Your request must specify the alternative means or location, and provide satisfactory explanation how payments will be handled under the alternative means or location you request.

    Amendment: You have the right to request that we amend your health information. (Your request must be in writing, and it must explain why the information should be amended.) We may deny your request under certain circumstances.

    Electronic Notice: If you receive this notice on our website or by electronic mail (e-mail), you are entitled to receive this notice in written form.

    Questions and Complaints:
    If you want more information about our privacy practices or have questions or concerns, please contact us. If
    you are concerned that we may have violated your privacy rights, or you disagree with a decision we made
    about access to your health information or in response to a request you made to amend or restrict the use or
    disclosure of your health information or to have us communicate with you by alternative means or at alternative locations, you may complain to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will provide you with the address to file your complaint with the U.S. Department of health and Human Services upon request. We support your right to the privacy of your health information. We will not retaliate in any way if you choose to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services .

    Gentile Dental Care
    89 Grand Avenue
    Massapequa, NY 11758
    Telephone (516) 639-6975

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