|
►Our
billing activities performed on behalf of your practice will bring
us into close contact with your patient's records and can cause us
to know confidential information about your patients. Any
information about your patients that comes to our billing office, either
intentionally or accidentally, is considered strictly confidential
and will be protected that way by all of our employees.
►The
patient’s right to privacy is a matter of
medical doctor jobs
and
physician employment ethics and is
protected by law under HIPAA. Inappropriate discussion of any
Protected Health Information by our employees is a violation of that
law.
►We
will not discuss with anyone, other then members of your staff, any
Protected Health Information regarding the patients of your
practice. We will discuss with the members of your staff, only that
information which is relevant to the performance of contractual
duties.
|