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Notice of Privacy Practices Orthopaedics Northeast, P.C. We are providing you with this Notice of Privacy Practices as required by HIPAA Regulations. Although we certainly wish to protect your privacy, there are many circumstances which require us to disclose your protected health information. 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. If you have any questions about this Notice please contact: our Privacy Contact who is Jo-Anne Cahill at 978.794.1946 Ext. 18 This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how we may use and disclose your protected health information to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations and for other purposes that are permitted or required by law. It also describes your rights to access and control your protected health information. "Protected health information" is information about you, including demographic information, that may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services. We are required to abide by the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices. We may change the terms of our notice, at any time. The new notice will be effective for all protected health information that we maintain at that time. Upon your request, we will provide you with any revised Notice of Privacy Practices by accessing our website http://www.orthonortheast.com, calling the office and requesting that a revised copy be sent to you in the mail or asking for one at the time of your next appointment. 1. Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information We are required to ask you to sign a HIPAA form acknowledging that you have received this Notice of Privacy Practices and that you are aware that your physician will use or disclose your protected health information as described in this Section 1. Your protected health information may be used and disclosed by your physician, our office staff and others outside of our office that are involved in your care and treatment for the purpose of providing health care services to you. Your protected health information may also be used and disclosed to pay your health care bills and to support the operation of the physician's practice. Following are examples of the types of uses and disclosures of your protected health care information that the physician's office is permitted to make once you have signed our consent form. These examples are not meant to be exhaustive, but to describe the types of uses and disclosures that may be made by our office once you have provided consent. Treatment: We will use and disclose your protected health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your health care and any related services. This includes the coordination or management of your health care with a third party that has already obtained your permission to have access to your protected health information. For example, we would disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to a home health agency that provides care to you.

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