Brian J. Del Core DDS
HEALTH INFORMATION PRIVACY
POLICIES & PROCEDURES
These Health Information Privacy Policies & Procedures implement our obligations to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information that we create, receive, or maintain as a healthcare provider.
Our dental office will provide our Notice of Privacy Practices to any person who requests it which includes a complete and expanded version of the policies outlined below.
We implement these Health Information Privacy Policies and Procedures as a matter of sound business practice; to protect the interests of our patients; and to fulfill our legal obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"), its implementing regulations at 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 (65 Fed. Reg 82462 (Dec. 28, 2000)) ("Privacy Rules"), as amended (67 Fed. Reg. 53182 [Aug. 14, 2002]), and state law that provides greater protection or rights to patients than the Privacy Rules.
Obtaining Consent – If consent is to be obtained, upon the individual’s first visit as a patient (or next visit if already a patient), our dental office will request and obtain the patient’s written Consent for our use and disclosure of the patient’s PHI for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations.
Our dental office will not use or disclose PHI (Personal Health Information) for marketing, or other uses not directly related to care that we provide without a patient’s Authorization.
Our dental office may use or disclose a patient’s PHI with the patient’s Oral Agreement or if the patient is unavailable subject to all applicable requirements.
Our dental office may use professional judgment and our experience with common practice to make reasonable inferences of the patient’s best interest in allowing a person to act on behalf of the patient to pick up dental/medical supplies, X-rays, or other similar forms of PHI.
. Permitted Without Acknowledgement, Consent Authorization or Oral Agreement
&Mac183; Our dental office may use or disclose a patient’s PHI in certain situations, without Authorization or Oral Agreement. In our dental office, these disclosures are not likely to be frequent.
&Mac183; Our dental office may use or disclose PHI in the following types of situations, provided procedures specified in the Privacy Rules are followed:
1. For public health activities;
2. To health oversight agencies;
3. To coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors;
4. To employers regarding work-related illness or injury;
5. To the military;
6. To federal officials for lawful intelligence, counterintelligence, and national security activities;
7. To correctional institutions regarding inmates;
8. In response to subpoenas and other lawful judicial processes;
9. To law enforcement officials;
10. To report abuse, neglect, or domestic violence;
11. As required by law;
12. As part of research projects; and
13. As authorized by state worker’s compensation
Our dental office will make reasonable efforts to disclose, or request of another covered entity, only the minimum necessary protected health information (PHI) to accomplish the intended purpose.
Complaints – Our dental patients have the right to complain about our compliance with our Privacy Policies and Procedures or the Privacy Rules. Complaint forms are available and will be reviewed ,and issues resolved by Dr. Del Core and his staff
To read Dr. Del Core's complete Privacy Policy & Procedures click here.
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