Bones and Joints

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2900 Whipple Ave, Suite 145, Redwood City, CA 94062 Privacy Officer Telephone Number (650) 365.5996 Effective Date: April 14, 2003 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. We understand the importance of privacy and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your medical information. We make a record of the medical care we provide and may receive such records from others. We use these records to provide or enable other health care providers to provide quality medical care, to obtain payment for services provided to you as allowed by your health plan and to enable us to meet our professional and legal obligations to operate this medical practice properly. We are required by law to maintain the privacy of protected health information and to provide individuals with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information. This notice describes how we may use and disclose your medical information. It also describes your rights and our legal obligations with respect to your medal information. If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact our Privacy Officer listed above. A. How this Medical Practice May Use or Disclose Your Health Information This medical practice collects health information about you and stores it in a chart and/or on a computer. This is your medical record. The medical record is the property of this medical practice, but the information in the medical record belongs to you. The law permits us to use or disclose your health information (including, if any, HIV/AIDS-related status, mental/health psychiatric, drug/alcohol use-abuse information) in order to treat you, obtain payment for services provided to you and in order to conduct our “health care operations” for the following purposes: 1.

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