We may provide medical information about you to health care providers, our practice personnel, or third parties who are involved in the provision, management, or coordination of your care.

Information obtained by a nurse, physician , or other member of your health care team will be recorded in your record and used to determine the course of treatment that should work best for you.  Your medical information will be shared among health care professionals involved in your care.

We will also provide your other physician(s) or subsequent health care provider(s) (when applicable) with copies of various reports that should assist them in treating you.

We may disclose your information so that we can collect or make payment for the health care services you receive.

If you participate in a health insurance plan, we will disclose necessary information to that plan to obtain payment for your care.

We may disclose your health information for our routine operations.  These uses are necessary for certain administrative, financial, legal, and quality improvement activities that are necessary to run our practice and support the core functions.

Members of the quality improvement team may use information in your health record to assess the care and outcomes in your case and others like it.  This information will then be used un an effort to continually improve the quality and effectiveness of the healthcare and service we provide and to reduce the healthcare costs.

For all non-routine operations, we will obtain your written authorization before disclosing your personal information.  In addition, we take great care to safeguard your information in every way that we can to minimize any incidental disclosures.