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DENTAL INSURANCE:
DENTAL HISTORY:
MEDICAL HISTORY:
I, the undersigned, have completed the health questionnaire and certify that the preceding information is true and correct. THIS OFFICE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS ARISING OUT OF INADEQUATE INFORMATION. I grant authority to the Doctor and Staff to perform all procedures and treatments in my best interest. I authorize the Orthodontist to share treatment information with collaborating dentists and surgeons when appropriate. I authorize the Orthodontist to submit treatment information pertinent to this patient to the Insurance Company for billing purposes only. I understand that, when appropriate, Credit Bureau reports may be obtained.
This office may use your orthodontic records for educational and promotional purposes. I know this is in the Consent form, but it allows us to use their photos, etc. for teaching purposes even if they do not start treatment.
I, {text-42} consent to the use of my personal image and likeness, including but not limited to images representing and depicting the treatment provided to me and the effect thereof, by The Smile Station for any lawful use The Smile Station deems appropriate, including for treatment, advertising his/her/its services to the general public (including via social media and electronic media), illustration, and publication to the public at large for educational purposes.
I hereby relinquish any and all right to my likeness or any image of me obtained by any photographic or digital means by The Smile Station during the course of my treatment. I understand that I am entitled to no consideration, remuneration or payment for the use of my image in any advertising, promotional or educational materials.
I understand that any image of likeness of my may be altered prior to use if deemed appropriate by The Smile Station. I understand and agree that I have no right to be consulted about or approve of any such alterations before my image is used.
I understand that The Smile Station will make all reasonable efforts to safeguard my privacy as required by appliable law, including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). I understand, however, that The Smile Station cannot guarantee my complete privacy in the event my image or likeness is used by third parties.
I understand and agree that The Smile Station may use information regarding my health condition, including information regarding my diagnosis, course of treatment, my date of birth and/or age and my other relevant medical conditions, in describing the treatment rendered to me as depicted in any image of me.
I understand that The Smile Station may not and has not conditioned the rendition of treatment to me upon my authorization of the use of my image and/or likeness.
I have read the foregoing in its entirety and understand its terms.
I decline consent to the use of my personal image and likeness.
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NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL or DENTAL 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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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 HEALTH CARE 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; examining your teeth, mouth, and oral health; prescribing medications and faxing them to be filled; prescribing dental appliances and dental prostheses; showing you treatment options; referring you to another dentist for specialty care; or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use or disclose your health information for payment purposes are: asking you about your dental or medical 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; personal 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) (we usually will not) ask you for special permission. (We will ask for special written permission in the following situations: anything related to HIV/AIDS status, any sale of information, any use of information for marketing or fundraising purposes, and {text-33}.)
In some limited situations, the law allows or requires us to use or disclose your health information without your permission. Not all ofthese situations will apply to us; some may never come up at our office at all. Such uses or disclosures are:
when a state or federal law mandates that certain health information be reported for a specific purpose;• for public health purposes, such as contagious disease reporting, investigation or surveillance; and notices to and from federalFood and Drug Administration regarding drugs or medical devices;• disclosures to governmental authorities about victims of suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence;• uses and disclosures for health oversight activities, such as for the licensing of doctors; for audits by Medicare or Medicaid; orfor investigation of possible violations of health care laws;• disclosures for judicial and administrative proceedings, such as in response to subpoenas or orders of courts or administrativeagencies;• disclosures for law enforcement purposes, such as to provide information about someone who is or is suspected to be a victimof a crime; to provide information about a crime at our office; or to report a crime that happened somewhere else;• disclosure to a medical examiner to identify a dead person or to determine the cause of death; or to funeral directors to aid inburial; or to organizations that handle organ or tissue donations;• uses or disclosures for health related research;• uses and disclosures to prevent a serious threat to health or safety• uses or disclosures for specialized government functions, such as for the protection of the president or high rankinggovernment officials; for lawful national intelligence activities; for military purposes; or for the evaluation and health ofmembers of the foreign service;• discloses of de-identified information;• disclosures relating to worker’s compensation programs;• disclosures of a “limited data set” for research, public health, or health care operations;• incidental disclosures that are an unavoidable by-product of permitted uses or disclosures;• disclosures to “business associates” who perform health care operations for us and who commit to respect the privacy of yourhealth information.
We may call or write to remind you of scheduled appointments, or that it is time to make a routine appointment. We may also call or write to notify you of other treatments or services available at out office that might help you. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will mail you an appointment reminder on a postcard, and/or leave you a reminder message on your home answering machine or with someone who answers your phone if you are not home.
We will not make any other uses or disclosures of your health information unless you sign a written “authorization form.” The content of an “authorization form” is determined by federal law. Sometimes, we may initiate the authorization process if the use or disclosure is our idea. Sometimes, you may initiate the process it it’s your idea for us to send your information to someone else. Typically, in this situation you will give us a properly completed authorization form, or you can use one of ours.If we initiate the process and ask you to sign an authorization form, you do not have to sign it. If you do not sign the authorization, we cannot make the use or disclosure. If you do sign one, you may revoke it at any time unless we have already acted in reliance upon it. Revocations must be in writing. Send them to the office contact person named at the beginning of this Notice.
The law gives you many rights regarding your health information. You can:• Ask us to restrict our uses and disclosures for purposes of treatment (except emergency treatment), payment or health careoperations. We do not have to agree to do this, but if we agree, we must honor the restrictions that you want. We must honor arestriction not to send information to a health care plan regarding any service for which you have already made full payment.To ask for a restriction, send a written request to the office contact person at the address, fax or Email shown at the beginningof this Notice.• Ask us to communicate with you in a confidential way, such as by phoning you at work rather than at home, by mailing healthinformation to a different address, or by using Email to your personal Email address. We will accommodate these requests ifthey are reasonable, and if you pay us for any extra cost. If you want to ask for confidential communications, send a writtenrequest to the office contact person at the address, fax or Email shown at the beginning of this Notice.• Ask to see or get photocopies of your health information. By law, there are a few limited situations in which we can refuse topermit access or copying. For the most part, however, you will be able to review or have a copy of your health informationwithin 10 days of asking us. You may have to pay for photocopies in advance. If we deny your request, we will send you awritten explanation, and instructions about how to get an impartial review of our denial if one is legally available. If you want toreview or get photocopies of your health information, send a written request to the office contact person at the address, fax orEmail shown at the beginning of this Notice.• Ask us to amend your health information if you think that it is incorrect or incomplete. If we agree, we will amend theinformation within 60 days from when you ask us. We will send the corrected information to persons who we know got thewrong information, and others that you specify. If we do not agree, you can write a statement of your position, and we willinclude it with your health information along with any rebuttal statement that we may write. Once your statement of positionand/or our rebuttal is included in your health information, we will send it along whenever we make a permitted disclosure ofyour health information. By law, we can have one 30 day extension of time to consider a request for amendment if we notifyyou in writing of the extension. If you want to ask us to amend your health information, send a written request, including yourreasons for the amendment, to the office contact person at the address, fax or Email shown at the beginning of this Notice.• Get a list of the disclosures that we have made of your health information within the past six years (or shorter period if youwant). By law, the list will not include: disclosures for purposes of treatment, payment or health care operations; disclosureswith your authorization; incidental disclosures; disclosures required by law; and some other limited disclosures. You areentitled to one such list per year without charge. If you want more frequent lists, you will have to pay for them in advance. Wewill usually respond to your request within 60 days of receiving it, but by law we can have one 30 day extension of time if wenotify you of the extension in writing. If you want a list, send a written request to the office contact person at the address, fax orEmail shown at the beginning of this Notice.• Get additional paper copies of this Notice of Privacy Practices upon request. It does not matter whether you got oneelectronically or in paper form already. If you want additional paper copies, send a written request to the office contact personat the address, fax or Email shown at the beginning of this Notice.be notified by us in a timely manner of any breach of the privacy and confidentiality of your unsecured protected health information,which we will provide to you in accordance with law and take all appropriate measures to address.
By law, we must abide by the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices until we choose to change it. We reserve the right to change this notice at any time as allowed by law. If we change this Notice, the new privacy practices will apply to your health information that we already have as well as to such information that we may generate in the future. If we change our Notice of Privacy Practices, we will post the new notice in our office, have copies available in our office, and post it on our website.
If you think we have not properly respected the privacy of your health information, you are free to complain to us of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you if you make a complaint. If you want to complain to us, send a written complaint to the office contact person at the address, fax or Email shown at the beginning of this Notice. If you prefer, you can discuss your complaint in person or by phone.
If you want more information about our privacy practices, call or visit the office contact person at the address or phone number shown at the beginning of this Notice.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT
I acknowledge that I received a copy of Notice of Privacy Practices.
With my permission, The Smile Station may use and disclose protected health information (PHI) about me to carry out treatment, payment, and healthcare operations (TPO). Please refer to The Smile Station Notice of Privacy Practices for a more complete description of such uses and disclosures.
I have the right to review the Notice of Privacy Practices prior to signing this consent. The Smile Station reserves the right to revise its Notice of Privacy Practices at any time. A revised Notice of Privacy Practices may be obtained by forwarding a written request to the Privacy Officer.
With my permission, the office of The Smile Station may call my home or other designated locations and leave a message on voice mail or in person in reference to any items that assist the practice in carrying out TPO, such as appointment reminders, insurance items and any call pertaining to my clinical care, including laboratory results, among others.
With my permission, the office of The Smile Station may mail to my home or other designated locations any items that assist the practice in carrying out TPO, such as appointment reminder cards and patient statements. This also includes texting appointment reminders.
With my permission, the office of The Smile Station may e-mail my home or other designated location any items that assist the practice in carrying out TPO, such as appointment reminder cards and patient statements. I have the right to request that The Smile Station restrict how it uses or discloses my PHI to carry out TPO. However, the practice is not required to agree to my requested restrictions, but if it does, it is bound by this agreement.
By signing this, I am allowing The Smile Station to use and disclosure my PHI for TPO.
I may revoke my consent in writing except to the extent that the practice has already made disclosures in reliance upon my prior consent.