Hospitalists Management Group

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The Hospitalists Management Group organization values your privacy and the physician practice groups that we manage are committed to protecting medical information about you. THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY State and Federal laws and regulations require the hospitalist physician practice groups to safeguard the privacy of your health information. This Notice will provide you with information regarding our privacy practices and it applies to all of your personal health information created and/or maintained by the hospitalist physician practice groups, including any information that may be received from other health care providers or facilities. This Notice describes the ways in which the physician practice groups may use or disclose your protected health information. It also describes your rights and our obligations concerning such uses or disclosures. Protected health information is information that is created and obtained while providing professional hospitalist services to you. This typically includes information concerning your symptoms, examinations, test results, diagnoses, treatment, and plans for future care and treatment. It also includes billing documents that are generate in order to bill for the professional services provided to you. This Notice of Privacy Practices applies to all of the hospitalist physician practice groups that are managed by Hospitalists Management Group. These groups provide professional hospitalist services at numerous hospitals throughout the United States. The hospitalist physician practice groups participate in Organized Health Care Arrangements at the hospitals or facilities where they practice. Organized Health Care Arrangements are made up of the various physicians and other health care providers who provide you with medical care and treatment while you are at the hospital or facility. Each of the Organized Health Care Arrangements maintains a Joint Notice of Privacy Practices which is similar to this Notice of Privacy Practices. The Joint Notice of Privacy Practices describes the ways in which the members of the Organized Health Care Arrangement may use or disclose your protected health information and it describes your rights with respect to that information. Absent an emergent situation, a hospital or facility staff member will provide you or your personal representative with a copy of the Joint Notice of Privacy Practices at the time of registration. The physician practice groups managed by HMG will abide by the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices and any Joint Notice of Privacy Practices that is in effect at the hospital or facility where you received medical care and treatment. We reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices and to make the revised Notice effective for health information that the hospitalist practice groups already have about you as well as any information that may be received in the future.

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