Privacy/HIPAA

At Midwest Family and Sports Medicine Center, we take your privacy seriously. Please read below for our Privacy Practices and a sample of our Patient Consent Form.

Notice of Privacy Practices:
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of, and provide individuals with, this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information. If you have any objections to this form, please ask to speak with our HIPAA Compliance Officer in person or by phone at our Main Phone Number.

Patient Consent Form (Sample):
The Department of Health and Human Services has established a "Privacy Rule" to help insure that personal health information is protected for privacy. The Privacy Rule was also created in order to provide a standard for certain health care providers to obtain their patients' consent for users and disclosures of health information about the patient to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations.

As our patient, we want you to know that we respect your personal medical records and will do all we can to secure and protect that privacy. When it is appropriate and necessary, we provide the minimum necessary information to only those we feel are in need of your health care information and information about treatment, payment or health care operations, In order to provide health care that is in your best interest.

We also want you to know that we support your full access to your personal medical records. We may have indirect treatment relationships with you (such as laboratories that only interact with physicians and not patients) and may have to disclose personal health information for purposes of treatment, payment, or health care operations. These entities are most often not required to obtain patient consent.

You may refuse to consent to the use or disclosure of your personal health information, but this must be in writing. Under this law, we have the right to refuse to treat you, should you choose to refuse to disclose your Personal Health Information (PHI). If you choose to give consent in this document, at some future time, you may request to refuse all or part o f you PHI. You may not revoke actions that have already been taken which relied on this or a previously signed consent.

If you have any objections to this form, please ask to speak with our HIPAA Compliance Officer.

You have the right to review our privacy notice, to request restrictions and revoke consent in writing after you have reviewed our privacy notice.

Signature of Patient or Guardian            Printed name

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Patient's Date of Birth                               Todays Date

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