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PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mission is to\ndeliver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Effective analysis and diagnosis of your hearing loss or balance\ncondition<\/li><li>Customized technology solutions that effectively integrate speech\ncomprehension back into your life<\/li><li>Unsurpassed patient satisfaction<\/li><li>Excellence through continuing education<\/li><li>Ongoing investment in the most advanced processes, procedures\nand technology to ensure superior results for each patient<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our practitioners understand\n\u201cvalue\u201d is not measured by price alone. Rather, value is about how well they\nutilize their knowledge and experience to create a customized solution to meet\nyour hearing expectations and your lifestyle.<br>\nAccording to HIPAA regulations, you have the right to restrict the uses or\ndisclosures of your information made for purposes of treatment, payment, and\/or\nhealthcare operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Treatment is the provision, coordination or management of\nhearing health care. For example, we may use and disclose your information to\nconsult with a third party or to refer you to other health care providers. We\nwill get your written consent prior to making disclosures outside our practice\nfor treatment purposes, except in emergencies.<\/li><li>Payment includes the activities necessary to obtain\nreimbursement for the provision of hearing health care. For example, we may\nneed to give your health plan information about treatment you received at our\npractice, so your health plan will pay us or reimburse you for the treatment.\nWe will get your written consent prior to making disclosures for payment\npurposes.<\/li><li>Health care operations include the activities necessary for our\npractice to run its business operations. For example, we may use your\ninformation to review treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of\nour staff.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any\nquestions regarding our privacy practices or think we may have violated your\nprivacy rights, please contact us at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northwest Ear Institute<br>2230 NW Pettygrove St #120, <br>Portland, OR 97210<br><a href=\"tel:+15034447676\">(503) 444 -7676<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your concern is not\nresolved, you may also submit a written complaint to the US Department of\nHealth and Human Services. If you choose to file a complaint, we will not\nretaliate in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This practice is\ndetermined to protect the privacy of your medical information. As we provide\nservice to you, we create and store health information (a medical record) that\nidentifies you. It is often necessary to share or disclose this health\ninformation in order to provide treatment for you, obtain payment, and to\nconduct healthcare operations in our office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This Notice of Privacy\nPractices requires us to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Keep your medical\nrecords private and to provide you with this notice<\/li><li>Update our privacy\npractices and the terms of this notice at any time, ensuring our notice is\neffective, even for information recently obtained<\/li><li>We reserve the\nright to make an important change in our privacy practices and change this\nNotice to that effect. You may contact us to request a new copy of our Notice\nand we will make the new Notice available upon request.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The following is a description\nof the different circumstances that may require our practice to use or disclose\nyour medical information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Share medical data\nwith another provider who is responsible for your care (physicians,\naudiologists, nurses, any other healthcare professionals, technicians, students\nin healthcare, or any other people who take care of you), make referrals and\/or\nplacing lab\/prescription orders.<\/li><li>Share your health\ninsurance plan information about a treatment you received at our practice when\nfiling a claim for reimbursement or determination of benefits<\/li><li>Provide treatment\ncommunications concerning treatment alternatives or other health related\nproducts or services, unless we or a business associate receive financial\nremuneration in exchange for the communication in which case we must receive\nyour written authorization unless the communication is made face-to-face or\ninvolves gifts of nominal value.<\/li><li>Disclose medical\ninformation to a medical examiner to identify a deceased person or to determine\nthe cause of death, or for tissue donations<\/li><li>Medical information\nmay be disclosed if you are military personnel, either active or a veteran, and\nif required by the appropriate authorities<\/li><li>Share medical data\nto the public health and\/or law enforcement official whose job is to prevent or\ncontrol disease, injury, or disability<\/li><li>Share medical data\nwith a representative from the Food and Drug Administration for the purpose of\nreporting adverse effects stemming from defective products, etc.<\/li><li>Medical information\nmay be disclosed when necessary to comply with Workers\u2019 Compensation.<\/li><li>Medical information\nmay be disclosed in response to a court and\/or administrative order in a\nlawsuit or similar proceeding.<\/li><li>In order to contact\nyou for fundraising activities supported by our practice. You have the option\nto opt out of receiving these communications by sending a written request to\nthe privacy officer.<\/li><li>For marketing\npurposes for which our practice or our business associates may receive remuneration,\nfor a disclosure that constitutes a sale of protected health information, and\nin all other situations not described in this policy your written authorization\nwill be obtained before our practice will use or disclose your health\ninformation to third parties outside our practice. You have the right to revoke\nsuch authorization by providing our practice with a written request to revoke\nthe specific authorization.<\/li><li>If a use of\ndisclosure is required by law, the disclosure will be made in compliance with\nthe law and will be limited to such requirements. State and federal laws may be\nmore stringent and may prohibit certain uses and disclosures identified above.\nWhen another law is more stringent than HIPAA, we will follow the more stringent\nrequirements.<\/li><li>To business\nassociates to perform functions on our practice\u2019s behalf, if the business\nassociate has signed an agreement to protect the confidentiality of the\ninformation.<\/li><li>Share information\nabout your condition(s), location and\/or death to family member(s), or your\npersonal representative(s). Prior permission by you will be obtained unless in\ncase of emergency. If we are unable to obtain permission, we will share only\nthe health information directly necessary for your healthcare.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You have individual rights as\npart of the notice of Privacy Practices. As a patient of Northwest Ear\nInstitute you have the right to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Request our\npractice to restrict uses and disclosures of your health information. However,\nwe are not required to agree to the requested restriction unless you are\nrequesting a restriction on the use and disclosure of your protected health\ninformation to a health plan for payment or healthcare operations and such\ninformation pertains to a healthcare item or service which you paid for in full\nand out of pocket. These requests should be made in writing to the address\ngiven in this Privacy Notice. In your request, you must tell us (a) what\ninformation you want to limit; (b) whether you want to limit our use,\ndisclosure, or both, and (c) to whom you want the limits to apply.<\/li><li>Be notified upon a\nbreach of any of your unsecured protected health information.<\/li><li>Request that we\ncommunicate with you regarding your confidential medical information by\ndifferent means or to different locations. This request must be made in writing\nto our practice.<\/li><li>Request photocopies\nof your medical records on file and\/or a copy of this Notice of Privacy\nPractices. If you need a photocopy, please notify the receptionist.<\/li><li>Request a change to\nyour health information if you think it is incomplete or inaccurate. However,\nif the audiologist, hearing healthcare professional or office personnel believe\nthe patient\u2019s health information is complete and accurate, he\/she can refuse to\nmake the requested changes. This request must be made in writing to Northwest\nEar Institute.<\/li><li>Receive a list of\nall the times your medical information has been shared by our office or our\nbusiness associates for six years prior to the request date, other than\ntreatment, payment, healthcare operations and\/or other specified exception.<\/li><li>Request a paper\ncopy if you have received this Notice of Privacy Practices electronically. This\nrequest must be made in writing to Northwest Ear Institute.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This Notice shall be effective as of March 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES The Notice of Privacy Practices is required by the Privacy Regulations stemming from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). 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. 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