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Cecil E. Watts, O.D. Notice of Privacy Practices 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: Chris Wyman-Office Manager. 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 permitted or required by law. It also describes your rights to access and control your protected information. ?Protected health information? is information about you, including demographics that may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health condition and related health care services. We are required to abide by the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices. We may change our notice, at any time. The new notice will be effective for all protected health information we maintain at that time. Upon your request, we will provide you with any revised Notice of Privacy Practices by mailing you one or asking for one at the time of your appointment. 1. Uses and Disclosure of Protected Health Information Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information Based Upon Your Written Consent You will be asked by your physician to sign consent form. Once you have consented to the disclosure of your protected health information for treatment, payment and health operations by signing the consent form, 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 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 you 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 another physician that provides care to you. Or we will disclose your protected health information to a physician you have been referred to in order to ensure that the physician has the necessary information to diagnose and treat you. In addition, we may disclose your protected health information from time-to-time with another physician or health care provider (e.g.

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