PRIVACY POLICY
HIPAA Privacy Policy
It is the policy of Above It All Physical Therapy, PLLC that all providers and staff preserve the integrity and confidentiality of any Protected Health Information (PHI) pertaining to our patients.
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that our practice and its providers and staff have the necessary medical and PHI to provide the highest quality physical therapy care possible while protecting the confidentiality of the PHI of our patients to the highest degree possible. Patients should be confident to provide information to our practice and its providers and staff for purposes of treatment, payment and healthcare operations (TPO), knowing that our practice and its providers and staff will–Adhere to the standards set forth in the Notice of Privacy Practices.
Collect, use and disclose PHI only in conformance with state and federal laws and current patient covenants and/or authorizations, as appropriate. Our practice and its providers and staff will not use or disclose PHI for uses outside of practice’s TPO, such as marketing, employment, life insurance applications, etc. without an authorization from the patient.
Use and disclose PHI to remind patients of their appointments only with their consent. Recognize that PHI collected about patients must be accurate, timely, complete, and available when needed.
Our practice and its providers and staff will
Implement reasonable measures to protect the integrity of all PHI maintained about patients. Recognize that patients have a right to privacy. Our practice and its providers and staff respect the patient’s individual dignity at all times. Our practice and its providers and staff will respect patient’s privacy to the extent consistent with providing the highest quality medical care possible and with the efficient administration of the facility.
Act as responsible information stewards and treat all PHI as sensitive and confidential.
Consequently, our practice and its providers and staff will
Treat all PHI data as confidential in accordance with professional ethics, accreditation standards, and legal requirements.
Not disclose PHI data unless the patient (or his or her authorized representative) has properly consented to or authorized the release or the release is otherwise authorized by law.
Recognize that, although our practice “owns” the medical record, the patient has a right to inspect and obtain a copy of his/her PHI. In addition, patients have a right to request an amendment to his/her medical record if he/she believes his/her information is inaccurate or incomplete. Our practice and its providers and staff will–Permit patients access to their medical records when their written requests are approved by our practice. If we deny their request, then we must inform the patients that they may request a
review of our denial. In such cases, we will have an on-site healthcare professional review the patients’ appeals.
Provide patients an opportunity to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete PHI in their medical records in accordance with the law and professional standards.
All providers and staff of our practice will maintain a list of all disclosures of PHI for purposes other than TPO for each patient. We will provide this list to patients upon request, so long as their requests are in writing.
All providers and staff of our practice will adhere to any restrictions concerning the use or disclosure of PHI that patients have requested and have been approved by our practice.
All providers and staff of our practice must adhere to this policy. Our practice will not tolerate violations of this policy. Violation of this policy is grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment and criminal or professional sanctions in accordance with our practice’s personnel rules and regulations.
Our practice may change this privacy policy in the future. Any changes will be effective upon the
release of a revised privacy policy and will be made available to patients upon request.
Privacy Policy
We recognize that you may be concerned about our use and disclosure of your personal information. Your privacy is very important to us, and the following will inform you of the information that we, American Family Care, may collect from you, and how it is used. By using our website, www.afcurgentcare.com, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.
Information Collection
We may collect non-personal information, such as a domain name and IP Address. The domain name and IP address reveals nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We may also collect information about the type of Internet browser you are using, operating system, what brought you to our Website, as well as which of our Web pages you have accessed.
Additionally, if you communicate with us regarding our Website or our services, we will collect any information that you provide to us in any such communication.
We may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Information Use
We use the collected information primarily for our own internal purposes, such as providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving our services and Website, fulfilling requests for information, and providing customer support.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
If we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Sharing
We will not sell or otherwise provide the information we collect to outside third parties for the purpose of direct or indirect mass email marketing.
We will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on our company
Protect and defend the rights or property of our Website and related properties
Identify persons who may be violating the law, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing our Website or its related properties
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example through e-mail, discussion boards, or elsewhere – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.
Use of cookies in our website
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is completely anonymous and is only used to help us determine which parts of the website are of best interest to our clients and also for performance monitoring. That way, we can create content that is specially tailored to our clients’ needs.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above
For questions related to our Privacy Policy, please email us at info@umdcare.com
Consent
By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Please review this page frequently to remain up-to-date with the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. You must review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures.
Animal Policy
No pets allowed unless you have a dog that is service animal required because of a disability. In such case, please harness, leash, or tether your dog unless these devices would interfere with the work it is trained to perform. Please also maintain control of your dog through voice, signal or other effective controls.