Notice of Privacy Practices
Notice of Privacy Practices
Notice of Privacy Practices for:
Dental Excellence Partners LLC DBA Athena Dental
13920 SW 47th St Miami FL 33175
We do not share, sell or convey any personal information with third parties for marketing/promotional purposes.
(hereinafter in this document, these entities will collectively be referred to as “DEP”)
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL/DENTAL 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 MEDICAL INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT TO US.
Purpose: Notice of Privacy Practices (“Notice”) presents the information that Federal law requires us to give our patients regarding our privacy practices.
We must provide this Notice to each patient beginning no later than the date of our first service delivery to the patient, including service delivered electronically, after December 1, 2023. We must make a good faith attempt to obtain written acknowledgment of receipt of the Notice from the patient. We must also have the Notice available at the office for patients to request to take with them. We must post the Notice in our office in a clear and prominent location where it is reasonable to expect any patients seeking service from us to be able to read the Notice. Whenever the Notice is revised, we must make the Notice available upon request on or after the effective date of the revision in a manner consistent with the above instructions. Thereafter, we must distribute the Notice to each new patient at the time of service delivery and to any person requesting a Notice. We must also post the revised Notice in our office as discussed above.
DEP is required to provide you with this Notice pursuant to the privacy regulations implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (“Privacy Rules”). DEP consists of the entity listed above. This Notice applies to all DEP practice locations in Florida.
OUR OBLIGATIONS
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information. We are also required to give you this Notice about our privacy practices, our legal obligations, and your rights concerning your health information. We must follow the privacy practices that are described in this Notice while it is in effect. This Notice takes effect December 1, 2023 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 available to you when you first receive services from us after the date the revised Notice becomes effective or upon request.
You may request a copy of our Notice at any time. For more information about our privacy practices, or for additional copies of this Notice, please contact us using the information listed at the end of this Notice.
USES AND DISCLOSURES OF HEALTH INFORMATION
We use and disclose health information about you for our treatment, payment, and health care operations. The covered entities listed above as “DEP” participate in an organized health care arrangement and share protected health information with each other, as necessary to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations relating to the organized health care arrangement.
For example:
Treatment: We may use or disclose your health information to a physician or other health care provider providing treatment to you.
Payment: We may use or disclose your health information to your health insurer to obtain payment for services we provide to you.
Health Care Operations: We may use and disclose your health information in connection with our health care operations. Health care operations include quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of health care professionals, evaluating practitioner and provider performance, conducting training programs, accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities.
For example, we may use or disclose your health information to conduct an internal assessment of the quality of care we provide.
