Effective Date: 9/3/2024
Dr. Niranjan Shintre, M.D., F.A.C.S., is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
1. Information We Collect
2. How We Use Your Information
3. Information Sharing
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties except as required by law or to trusted partners who assist us in operating our website.
4. HIPPA Notice of Privacy Practices
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.
This center is required by law to maintain the privacy of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) and to provide you with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI. PHI is information that may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services. This Notice of Privacy Practices (“Notice”) describes how we may use and disclose PHI to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations and for other specified purposes that are permitted or required by law. The Notice also describes your rights with respect to your PHI. We are required to provide this notice to you by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).
This center is required to follow the terms of this Notice. We will not use or disclose your PHI without your written authorization, except as described or otherwise permitted by this Notice. We reserve the right to change our practices and this Notice and to make the new Notice effective for all PHI we maintain. Upon request, we will provide any revised Notice to you.
Examples of How We Use and Disclose Protected Health Information About You
Treatment. We may use and disclose your health information to provide you with medical treatment or services. For example, nurses, physicians, and other members of your treatment team will record and use it to determine the most appropriate course of care. We may also disclose the information to other health care providers who are participating in your treatment, to pharmacists who are filling your prescriptions, and to family members who are helping with your care.
Payment. We may use your health information for payment purposes. E.g.: We may contact your insurer or other health care payer to determine whether it will pay for your medications.
Health Care Operations. We may use your health information for certain operational, administrative and quality assurance activities. This information will be used in an effort to continually improve the quality and effectiveness of service we provide.
Special Uses. We may use your information to contact you for appointment reminders. We may contact you to provide information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.
We are permitted to use or disclose your PHI for the following purposes. However, we may never have reason to make some of these disclosures. To Communicate with Individuals Involved in:
Your Care or Payment for Your Care. We may disclose to a family member, other relative, close personal friend or any other person you identify, PHI directly relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or payment related to your care.
Worker’s Compensation. We may disclose your PHI to the extent authorized by and to the extent necessary to comply with laws relating to worker’s compensation or other similar programs established by law.
Public Health. As required by law, we may disclose your PHI to public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability.
Law Enforcement. We may disclose your PHI for law enforcement purposes as required by law or in response to a subpoena or court order. We may also disclose your PHI when required to do so by federal, state, or local law.
Judicial and Administrative Proceedings. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose your PHI in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose health information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process instituted by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made, either by the requesting party or us, to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.
Research. We may disclose your PHI for approved medical research.
Notification. We may use or disclose your PHI to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative, or another person responsible for your care, regarding your location and general condition.
To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. We may use and disclose your PHI when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person.
Military and Special Government Functions. If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release PHI about you as required by military command authorities. We may also release PHI about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority and to correctional institutions or for national security purposes.
Other Uses and Disclosures of PHI. We will obtain your written authorization before using or disclosing your PHI for purposes other than those provided for above (or as otherwise permitted or required by law). You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time. Upon receipt of the written revocation, we will stop using or disclosing your PHI, except to the extent that we have already taken action in reliance on the authorization.
Your Health Information Rights
Obtain a paper copy of the Notice upon request. You may request a copy of our current Notice at any time. Even if you have agreed to receive the Notice electronically, you are still entitled to a paper copy.
Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of PHI. You have the right to request additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your PHI by sending a written request. We are not required to agree to those restrictions. We cannot agree to restrictions on uses or disclosures that are legally required, or which are necessary to administer our business.
Inspect and obtain a copy of PHI. In most cases, you have the right to access and copy the PHI that we maintain about you. To inspect or copy your PHI, you must send a written request. We may charge you a fee for the costs of copying, mailing and supplies that are necessary. We may deny your request to inspect and copy in certain limited circumstances.
Request an amendment of PHI. If you feel that PHI we maintain about you is incomplete or incorrect, you may request that we amend it. To request an amendment, you must send a written request. You must include a reason that supports your request. In certain cases, we may deny your request for amendment.
Accounting of disclosures. You have the right to receive an accounting of the disclosures we have made of your PHI for reasons other than treatment, payment, or health care operations.
For More Information or To Report a Problem If you have questions, requests or complaints, or are concerned that we have violated your privacy rights please let us know.
Contact: Ilona Klempner : Clinical Coordinator Phone : (561) 922-8823
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
5. Cookies
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6. Data Security
We implement security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. However, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.
7. Your Rights
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with the updated effective date.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
I hereby acknowledge receipt of the Notice of Privacy Practices given to me.