Privacy Policy
San
Diego Chiropractic Care Center
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.
San
Diego Chiropractic Care Center
is required, by law, to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of
your protected health information and to provide our patients with
notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your
protected health information.
Disclosure of Your
Health Care Information
Treatment
We may disclose your health care information to other healthcare
professionals within our practice for the purpose of treatment, payment
or healthcare operations.
(examples)
“On occasion, it may be necessary to seek consultation
regarding your condition from other health care providers associated
with San Diego Chiropractic Care Center.”
“It is our policy to provide a substitute
health care provider, authorized by San Diego Chiropractic Care Center
to provide assessment and/or treatment to our patients, without
advanced notice, in the event of your primary health care
provider’s absence due to vacation, sickness, or other
emergency situation.”
Payment
We may disclose your health information to your insurance provider for
the purpose of payment or health care operations.
Workers’ Compensation
We may disclose your health information as necessary to comply with
State Workers’ Compensation Laws.
Emergencies
We may disclose your health information to notify or assist in
notifying a family member, or another person responsible for your care
about your medical condition or in the event of an emergency or of your
death.
Public Health
As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public
health authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling
disease, injury or disability, reporting child abuse or neglect,
reporting domestic violence, reporting to the Food and Drug
Administration problems with products and reactions to medications, and
reporting disease or infection exposure.
Judicial and Administrative Proceedings
We may disclose your health information in the course of any
administrative or judicial proceeding. Law Enforcement. We may disclose
your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such
as identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or
missing person, complying with a court order or subpoena, and other law
enforcement purposes.
Deceased Persons
We may disclose your health information to coroners or medical
examiners.
Organ Donation
We may disclose your health information to organizations involved in
procuring, banking, or transplanting organs and tissues. Research. We
may disclose your health information to researchers conducting research
that has been approved by an Institutional Review Board.
Public Safety
It may be necessary to disclose your health information to appropriate
persons in order to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to
the health or safety of a particular person or to the general public.
Specialized Government Agencies
We may disclose your health information for military, national
security, prisoner and government benefits purposes.
Change of Ownership
In the event that San Diego Chiropractic Care Center is sold or merged
with another organization, your health information/record will become
the property of the new owner.
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Your Health
Information Rights
- You have the right to request restrictions on certain
uses and disclosures of your health information. Please be advised,
however, that San Diego Chiropractic Care Center is not required to
agree to the restriction that you requested.
- You have the right to have your health information
received or communicated through an alternative method or sent to an
alternative location other than the usual method of communication or
delivery, upon your request.
- You have the right to inspect and copy your health
information.
- You have a right to request that San Diego
Chiropractic Care Center amend your protected health information.
Please be advised, however, that San Diego Chiropractic Care Center is
not required to agree to amend your protected health information. If
your request to amend your health information has been denied, you will
be provided with an explanation of our denial reason(s)and information
about how you can disagree with the denial.
- You have a right to receive an accounting of
disclosures of your protected health information made by San Diego
Chiropractic Care Center.
- You have a right to a paper copy of the San Diego
Chiropractic Care Center Notice of Privacy Practices at any time upon
request.
Changes to this
Notice of Privacy Practices
San Diego Chiropractic Care Center reserves the right
to amend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future,
and will make the new provisions effective for all information that it
maintains. Until such amendment is made, San Diego Chiropractic Care
Center is required by law to comply with this Notice.
San Diego Chiropractic Care Center is required by law
to maintain the privacy of your health information and to provide you
with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to
your health information.
If you have questions about any part of this notice or if you want more
information about your privacy rights, please contact:
Dr. Alex Pozhitsky by calling this office at 858 292-1555
If Dr. Alex Pozhitsky is not available, you may make an appointment for
a personal conference in person or by telephone within 2 working days.
Complaints
Complaints about your Privacy rights, or how San Diego
Chiropractic Care Center has handled your health information should be
directed to Dr. Alex Pozhitsky, by calling this office at 858 292-1555
If Dr. Alex Pozhitsky is not available, you may make an
appointment for a personal conference in person or by telephone within
2 working days.
If you are not satisfied with the manner in which this
office handles your complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to:
DHHS, Office of Civil Rights 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Room 509F
HHH Building Washington, DC 20201
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