HIPAA Privacy Policy

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
OF
Chesapeake Neurosurgery, LLC

Effective Date July 4, 2004

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.
Please read it carefully.

A record is made each time you visit this office. Your symptoms, examination and test results, diagnosis, treatment and care plan are recorded. This information is most often referred to as your ?health or medical record? and serves as a basis for planning your continued care and treatment. It also serves as a means of communication among any and all other health care professional who may contribute to your care. Understanding what information is retained in your record and how that information may be used will help you to ensure its accuracy and enable you to relate to who, what, where and why others may be allowed access to your health information. This effort is being made to assist you in making informed decisions before authorizing the disclosure of your medical information to others. Use or disclosure of your health information will follow the more stringent of State or Federal laws.

Understanding your health information rights

Your health record is the physical property of the health care practitioner or facility that complied it but the content is about you and therefore belongs to you. You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your information and to request amendments be made to your health record. Your rights include being able to review or obtain a paper copy of your health information and to be given an account of all disclosures. You may also request communications of your health information be made by alternative means or to alternative locations. Other than activity that has already occurred, you may revoke any further authorizations to use or disclose you health information.

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