Please Read This Notice Of Privacy Prior To Registering Below..pdf

BWS Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery's Notice of Privacy Practices describes how medical information about patients may be used and disclosed, and how patients can access this information. The practice is obligated by law to keep health information private and to provide notice of its privacy practices.

The practice uses or discloses health information for treatment, payment, or health care operations, such as setting up appointments, examining patients, prescribing medications, and preparing bills. It may also disclose health information outside of the office for these purposes without special written permission.

However, the practice will ask for special written permission in certain situations, such as anything related to HIV/AIDS status, the sale of information, or the use of information for marketing or fundraising purposes.

In some limited situations, the law allows or requires the practice to use or disclose health information without permission, such as when a state or federal law mandates the reporting of certain health information, for public health purposes, or for law enforcement purposes.

Patients have several rights regarding their health information, including the right to ask the practice to restrict uses and disclosures, to communicate with them in a confidential way, to see or get photocopies of their health information, to amend their health information if it is incorrect or incomplete, and to get a list of disclosures that have been made of their health information.