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Patient Privacy

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.

Understanding Your Health Information

Each time you visit a hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider, a record of your visit is made in order to manage the care you receive. We understand that the medical information that is recorded about you and your health is personal. The confidentiality of your health information is also protected under both state and federal law.

This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how we may use and disclose your information and the rights that you have regarding your health information.

HB Health/Bagshahi Bariatric and General Surgery is in the process of transitioning from a paper-based health record to an electronic health record and will not use or disclose your health information without written authorization, except as described in this Notice. Use or disclosure pursuant to this Notice may include electronic transfer of your health information.

Your Health Information Rights

Although your health information is the physical property of the facility or practitioner that compiled it, the information belongs to you, and you have certain rights over that information. You have the right to:

You may exercise these rights by directing a request to the Privacy Officer contact listed on this Notice.

Our Responsibilities

HB Health PLLC/Bagshahi Bariatric and General Surgery has certain responsibilities regarding your health information, including the requirement to:

HB Health PLLC/Bagshahi Bariatric and General Surgery reserves the right to change these information privacy policies and practices and to make the changes applicable to any health information that we maintain. If changes are made, the revised Notice of Privacy Practices will be made available at each of our sites, posted on the web site, and will be supplied when requested.

Uses and Disclosures of Health Information without Authorization
When you obtain services from HB Health PLLC/Bagshahi Bariatric and General Surgery, certain uses and disclosures of your health information are necessary and permitted by law in order to treat you, to process payments for your treatment and to support the operations of the entity and other involved providers.  The following categories describe ways that our practice uses or discloses your information, and some representative examples are provided in each category. All of the ways your health information is used or disclosed should fall within one of these categories.

Your health information will be used for treatment.
For example: Disclosures of medical information about you may be made to doctors, nurses, technicians, medical residents or others who are involved in taking care of you at a our practice.  This information may be disclosed to other physicians who are treating you or to other healthcare facilities involved in your care.  Information may be shared with pharmacies, laboratories or radiology centers for the coordination of different treatments.

Your health information will be used for payment.
For example: Health information about you may be disclosed so that services provided to you may be billed to an insurance company or a third party. Information may be provided to your health plan about treatment you are going to receive in order to obtain prior approval or to determine if your health plan will cover the treatment.

Your health information will be used for health care operations.
For example: The information in your health record may be used to evaluate and improve the quality of the care and services we provide. Students, volunteers, and trainees may have access to your health information for training and treatment purposes as they participate in continuing education, training, internships, and residency programs.

Business Associates: 
There are some services that we provide through contracts with third party business associates.  Examples include transcription agencies and copying services.

Directory: 
Unless you give notice of an objection, your name, location in the facility, general condition and religious affiliation will be used for patient directories, in those practices where such directories are maintained.

Continuity of Care: 
In order to provide for the continuity of your care once you are discharged from one of our facilities, your information may be shared with other healthcare providers such as home health agencies. Information about you may be disclosed to community services agencies in order to obtain their services on your behalf.

Disclosures Requiring Verbal Agreement
Unless you give notice of an objection, and in accordance with your agreement, medical information may be released to a family member or other person who is involved in your medical care or who helps pay for your care. Information about you may be disclosed to notify a family member, legally authorized representative or other person responsible for your care about your location and general condition. You will be given an opportunity to agree or object to these disclosures except as due to your incapacity or in emergency circumstances.

Disclosures Required by Law or otherwise Allowed without Authorization or Notification.
The following disclosures of health information may be made according to state and federal law without your written authorization or verbal agreement:

Other Allowable Uses and Disclosures without Authorization
Other uses or disclosures of your health information that may be made include:

Required Uses and Disclosures
Under the law we must make disclosures when required by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate or determine our compliance with federal privacy law.

Uses and Disclosures Requiring Authorization
Any other uses or disclosures of your health information not addressed in this Notice or otherwise required by law will be made only with your written authorization.  You may revoke such authorization at any time. Specific examples of uses and disclosures requiring authorization include: use of psychotherapy notes, marketing activities, and some types of sale of your health information.

Privacy Complaints
You have the right to file a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.  This complaint may be addressed to the Privacy Officer contact listed in this Notice, or to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. There will be no retaliation for registering a complaint.

Privacy Contact
Please contact our office for any issues or questions regarding privacy policies.

Effective Date
January 01, 2020