1. When you come in for your appointments, you need to allow an extra 10 minutes prior to your appointment to update your patient information and to learn about HIPAA.
2. We will have someone talk with you to help you understand your rights as a patient.
3. Staff will have you sign a form that says you have been informed of your rights. This process will happen one time, but you may ask questions about your privacy rights any time.
4. The only information that will be shared will be information that needs to be shared for treatment and billing.
5. We are no longer allowed to share information such as whether your family member is in the clinic or not. We must have releases of information from you to share information with anyone about you.
6. There is a privacy officer that will hear concerns and complaints from you about privacy
7. All Children must have a parent or guardian with them in the clinic.
8. We must have releases from the patient if someone other than the patient picks up medication at the pharmacy.

These are a few point that we wanted to share with you to help you understand some of the changes that we are experiencing. We are sorry for any inconvienance that this causes you, but we want to assur your privacy and to abide by the new Federal Law.

We thank you for your patience in our new intake process and we wish you Good Health and Wellness.