Paciente Política De Privacidad

Nuestro Deber Legal

Estamos obligados por las leyes federales y estatales para mantener la privacidad de su información de salud protegida. También estamos obligados a darle a usted este aviso sobre nuestras prácticas de privacidad, nuestros deberes legales y sus derechos con respecto a su información protegida de salud. Debemos seguir las prácticas de privacidad que se describen en este aviso mientras esté en efecto. Este aviso entra en vigencia noviembre 1, 2013 y permanecerá en efecto hasta que lo reemplacemos.

Nos reservamos el derecho a cambiar nuestras prácticas de privacidad y los términos de este aviso en cualquier momento, siempre que tales cambios son permitidos por la ley aplicable. Nos reservamos el derecho de hacer los cambios en nuestras prácticas de privacidad y los nuevos términos de nuestro aviso para toda la información médica protegida que mantenemos, incluyendo la información médica creada o recibida antes de hacer los cambios.

Usted puede solicitar una copia de nuestro aviso (o cualquier otra notificación revisada) en cualquier momento. Para obtener más información acerca de nuestras prácticas de privacidad, o para obtener copias adicionales de este aviso, por favor póngase en contacto con nosotros usando la información que aparece al final de este aviso.

Usos y Revelaciones de Información Protegida de Salud

Podemos utilizar y divulgar su información protegida de salud acerca de usted para tratamiento, pago y operaciones de cuidado de salud.

Los siguientes son ejemplos de los tipos de usos y divulgaciones de su protegida información de salud que pueden ocurrir. Estos ejemplos no pretenden ser exhaustivas, sino para describir los tipos de usos y divulgaciones que pueden ser realizados por nuestra oficina.

Treatment: We will use and disclose your protected health information to provide, coordinate or manage your health care and any related services. This includes the coordination or management of your health care with a third party. For example, we would disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to a home health agency that provides care to you. We will also disclose protected health information to other physicians who may be treating you. For example, your protected health information may be provided to a physician to whom you have been referred to ensure that the physician has the necessary information to diagnose or treat you.

Además, podemos divulgar su información protegida de la salud a partir de tiempo al tiempo a otro médico o proveedor de atención médica (por ejemplo, un especialista o laboratorio) que, a petición de su médico, se convierte involucrados en su cuidado por la prestación de asistencia con el cuidado de su salud diagnóstico o tratamiento de su médico.

Payment: Your protected health information will be used, as needed, to obtain payment for your health care services. This may include certain activities that your health insurance plan may undertake before it approves or pays for the health care services we recommend for you, such as: making a determination of eligibility or coverage for insurance benefits, reviewing services provided to you for protected health necessity, and undertaking utilization review activities. For example, obtaining approval for a hospital stay may require that your relevant protected health information be disclosed to the health plan to obtain approval for the hospital admission.

Health Care Operations: We may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information in order to conduct certain business and operational activities. These activities include, but are not limited to, quality assessment activities, employee review activities, training of students, licensing, and conducting or arranging for other business activities.

Por ejemplo, podemos usar una hoja de firmas en la mesa de registro donde se le pedirá que firme con su nombre. También podemos llamarlo por su nombre en la sala de espera cuando su médico está listo para verlo. Podemos usar o divulgar su información de salud protegida, según sea necesario, contactar con usted por teléfono o correo electrónico para recordarle de su cita.

Vamos a compartir su información de salud protegida con terceros "socios de negocio", que realizan diversas actividades (por ejemplo, facturación, servicios de transcripción) para la práctica. Siempre que un acuerdo entre nuestra oficina y un asociado de negocios implica el uso o divulgación de su información de salud protegida, tendremos un contrato escrito que contenga los términos para proteger la privacidad de su información de salud protegida.

Sale of Health Information: We will not sell or exchange your health information for any type of financial remuneration without your written authorization.

Fundraising Communications: We may use or disclose your health information for fundraising purposes, but you have the right to opt-out from receiving these communications.

Fundraising Communications: We may use or disclose your health information for fundraising purposes, but you have the right to opt-out from receiving these communications.

Uses and Disclosures Based On Your Written Authorization: Other uses and disclosures of your protected health information will be made only with your authorization, unless otherwise permitted or required by law as described below.

Usted nos puede dar una autorización por escrito para usar su información de salud protegida o divulgarla a cualquier persona para cualquier propósito. Si usted nos da una autorización, puede revocarla por escrito en cualquier momento. Su revocación no afectará ningún uso o divulgación permitida por su autorización mientras se encontraba en vigor. Sin su autorización por escrito, no divulgaremos su información de salud excepto como se describe en este aviso.

Others Involved in Your Health Care: Unless you object, we may disclose to a member of your family, a relative, a close friend or any other person you identify, your protected health information that directly relates to that person’s involvement in your health care. If you are unable to agree or object to such a disclosure, we may disclose such information as necessary if we determine that it is in your best interest based on our professional judgment. We may use or disclose protected health information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative or any other person that is responsible for your care of your location, general condition or death.

Marketing: We may use your protected health information to contact you with information about treatment alternatives that may be of interest to you. We may disclose your protected health information to a business associate to assist us in these activities. If we are paid by a third party to make marketing communications to you about their products or services, we will not make such communications to you without your written authorization. Except as stated above, no other marketing communications will be sent to you without your authorization.

Research; Death; Organ Donation: We may use or disclose your protected health information for research purposes in limited circumstances. We may disclose the protected health information of a deceased person to a coroner, protected health examiner, funeral director or organ procurement organization for certain purposes.

Public Health and Safety: We may disclose your protected health information to the extent necessary to avert a serious and imminent threat to your health or safety, or the health or safety of others. We may disclose your protected health information to a government agency authorized to oversee the health care system or government programs or its contractors, and to public health authorities for public health purposes.

Health Oversight: We may disclose protected health information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law, such as audits, investigations and inspections. Oversight agencies seeking this information include government agencies that oversee the health care system, government benefit programs, other government regulatory programs and civil rights laws.

Abuse or Neglect: We may disclose your protected health information to a public health authority that is authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect. In addition, we may disclose your protected health information if we believe that you have been a victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence to the governmental entity or agency authorized to receive such information. In this case, the disclosure will be made consistent with the requirements of applicable federal and state laws.

Food and Drug Administration: We may disclose your protected health information to a person or company required by the Food and Drug Administration to report adverse events, product defects or problems, biologic product deviations, to track products; to enable product recalls; to make repairs or replacements; or to conduct post marketing surveillance, as required.

Criminal Activity: Consistent with applicable federal and state laws, we may disclose your protected health information, if we believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public. We may also disclose protected health information if it is necessary for law enforcement authorities to identify or apprehend an individual.

Required by Law: We may use or disclose your protected health information when we are required to do so by law. For example, we must disclose your protected health information to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upon request for purposes of determining whether we are in compliance with federal privacy laws. We may disclose your protected health information when authorized by workers’ compensation or similar laws.

Process and Proceedings: We may disclose your protected health information in response to a court or administrative order, subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process, under certain circumstances. Under limited circumstances, such as a court order, warrant or grand jury subpoena, we may disclose your protected health information to law enforcement officials.

Law Enforcement: We may disclose limited information to a law enforcement official concerning the protected health information of a suspect, fugitive, material witness, crime victim or missing person. We may disclose the protected health information of an inmate or other person in lawful custody to a law enforcement official or correctional institution under certain circumstances. We may disclose protected health information where necessary to assist law enforcement officials to capture an individual who has admitted to participation in a crime or has escaped from lawful custody.

Derechos Del Paciente

Access: You have the right to look at or get copies of your protected health information, with limited exceptions. You must make a request in writing to the contact person listed herein to obtain access to your protected health information. You may also request access by sending us a letter to the address at the end of this notice. If you request copies, we will charge you 25¢ for each page, $15.00 per hour for staff time to locate and copy your protected health information, and postage if you want the copies mailed to you. If the Practice keeps your health information in electronic form, you may request that we send it to you or another party in electronic form. If you prefer, we will prepare a summary or an explanation of your protected health information for a fee. Contact us using the information listed at the end of this notice for a full explanation of our fee structure.

Accounting of Disclosures: You have the right to receive a list of instances in which we or our business associates disclosed your non-electronic protected health information for purposes other than treatment, payment, health care operations and certain other activities during the past six (6) years. For disclosures of electronic health information, our duty to provide an accounting only covers disclosures after January 1, 2011 [January 1, 2014] and only applies to disclosures for the three (3) years preceding your request. We will provide you with the date on which we made the disclosure, the name of the person or entity to whom we disclosed your protected health information, a description of the protected health information we disclosed, the reason for the disclosure, and certain other information. If you request this list more than once in a 12-month period, we may charge you a reasonable, cost-based fee for responding to these additional requests. Contact us using the information listed at the end of this notice for a full explanation of our fee structure.

Restriction Requests: You have the right to request that we place additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your protected health information. Except as noted herein, we are not required to agree to these additional restrictions, but if we do, we will abide by our agreement (except in an emergency). We are required to accept and follow requests for restrictions of health information to insurance companies if you have paid out-of-pocket and in full for the item or service we provide to you. Any agreement we may make to a request for additional restrictions must be in writing signed by a person authorized to make such an agreement on our behalf. We will not be bound unless our agreement is so memorialized in writing.

Confidential Communication: You have the right to request that we communicate with you in confidence about your protected health information by alternative means or to an alternative location. You must make your request in writing. We must accommodate your request if it is reasonable, specifies the alternative means or location, and continues to permit us to bill and collect payment from you.

Amendment: You have the right to request that we amend your protected health information. Your request must be in writing, and it must explain why the information should be amended. We may deny your request if we did not create the information you want amended or for certain other reasons. If we deny your request, we will provide you a written explanation. You may respond with a statement of disagreement to be appended to the information you wanted amended. If we accept your request to amend the information, we will make reasonable efforts to inform others, including people or entities you name, of the amendment and to include the changes in any future disclosures of that information.

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. Please contact us using the information listed at the end of this notice to obtain this notice in written form.

Notice of Unauthorized Disclosures: If the Practice causes or allows your health information to be disclosed to an unauthorized person, the Practice will notify you of this and help you mitigate the effects.

Preguntas y Quejas

Si desea obtener más información acerca de nuestras prácticas de privacidad o tiene preguntas o preocupaciones, por favor póngase en contacto con nosotros utilizando la siguiente información.

Si usted cree que hemos violado sus derechos de privacidad o no está de acuerdo con una decisión que tomamos sobre el acceso a su información de salud protegida o en respuesta a una solicitud que hizo, usted puede quejarse con nosotros usando la información de contacto a continuación. Usted también puede enviar una queja por escrito al Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos. Nosotros le proporcionaremos la dirección para presentar su queja con el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos bajo petición.

Apoyamos su derecho a proteger la privacidad de su información de salud protegida. No tomaremos represalias de ninguna manera si usted decide presentar una queja con nosotros o con el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos.

Name of Contact Person: Office Manager

Francisco J. Oliva DPM
801 Monterey Street, Suite 203
Coral Gables Florida, 33134

	(305)648-3680	Teléfono
	(305)648-3692	Fax