Peninsula Neurology, LTD.

Privacy Policy

It is the policy of our practice that all physicians and staff preserve the integrity and the confidentiality of the protected health information (PHI) pertaining to our patients. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that our practice and its physicians and staff have the necessary medical and PHI to provide the highest quality medical care possible while protecting the confidentiality of the PHI of our patients to the highest degree possible. Patients should be able to provide information to our practice and its physicians and staff for purposes of fit, payment and healthcare operations (TPO). To that end, our practice and its physicians 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 physicians and staff will not use or disclose PHI for uses outside of Practice's TPO, such as marketing, employment, life insurance applications, etc. without and authorization from the patient.
• Use and disclose PHI to remind patients of their appointments only within their consent.
• Recognize that PHI collected about patients must be accurate, timely, complete, and available when needed. Our practice and its physicians and staff will
  • Implement reasonable measures to protect the integrity of all PHI maintained of all PHI maintained about patients.
• Recognize that patients have a right to privacy. Our practice and its physicians and staff respect the patient's individual dignity at all times. Our practice and its physicians 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 physicians and staff will:
  • Treat all PHI data as confidential in accords 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 of request and amendment to his/her medical record if he/she believes his/her information is inaccurate or incomplete. Our practice and its physicians and staff will.
• 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 physicians 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.
• 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.

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  Peninsula Neurology, Ltd.
  802 Lockwood Avenue
  Suite A
  Newport News, VA 23602
  Tel: 757.872.9797
  Fax: 757.872.9711
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