Privacy Policy
Notice of Privacy Practices
Drs. Roush & Will Optometrists, Inc.
| 815 Trail Ridge Road Albion, IN 46701 Phone: (260) 636-7788 Fax: (260) 636- |
117 W. Rush St Kendallville, IN 46755 Phone: (260)347-3458 Fax: (260)347-4425 |
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.
We respect our legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give you notice of our privacy practices. This Notice describes how we protect your health information and what rights you have regarding it.
TREATMENT, PAYMENT, AND HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS
The most common reason why we use or disclose your health information is for treatment, payment, or health care operations. Examples of how we use or disclose information for treatment purposes are: setting up an appointment for you; testing or examining your eyes; prescribing glasses, contact lenses, or eye medications and faxing them to be filled; showing you low vision aids; referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aids or services; or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use of disclose your health information for payment purposes are: asking you about your health or vision care plans, or other sources of payment; preparing and sending bills or claims; and collecting unpaid amounts (either ourselves or through a collection agency or attorney). "Health care operations" mean those administrative and managerial functions that we have to do in order to run our office. Examples of how we use or disclose your health information for health care operations are: financial or billing audits; internal quality assurance; personnel decisions; participation in managed care plans; defense of legal matters; business planning; and outside storage of our records.
We routinely use your health information inside our office for these purposes without any special permission. If we need to disclose your health information outside of our office for these reasons, we will ask your for special written permission.
Click here to read more about our policy including:
- USES AND DISCLOSURES FOR OTHER REASONS WITHOUT PERMISSION
- APPOINTMENT REMINDERS
- OTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES
- YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION
- OUR NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
- COMPLAINTS
FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you want more information about our privacy practices, call or visit our office contact person at the address or phone number shown at the beginning of this Notice.