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Privacy Policy

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    Client Privacy

    This policy of Neuro Injury Specialists located in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Bronx NY guarantees a nationwide baseline of privacy rights for clients by restricting what insurance companies, hospitals, and other medical providers can do with their personal health data. The law safeguards health histories and other personally traceable medical material. Some important conditions of the full specification are:

    Health History Accessibility

    Clients should usually be able to acquire copies of their health histories and ask for modifications if they find any discrepancies. Insurance companies, physicians, hospitals, and other included organizations should allow clients to peruse these files within a month and can bill clients for the expense of duplicating and delivering the documents.

    Disclosure of Privacy Procedures

    Physicians, medical coverage providers, and other medical practitioners should disclose to their clients the ways their personal health details will be used according to the privacy rule. Patients are typically requested to sign or somehow attest that they’ve acquired this notice. While clients can also request included providers to limit the usage or dissemination of their data outside of the methods outlined in the notice, the providers aren’t required to approve of the modifications.

    Limitations on Usage of Personal Health Data

    This privacy regulation imposes limitations on what insurance plans and practitioners can do with personally traceable medical info. To encourage the highest level of patient treatment, the regulations do not limit the capability of physicians or nursing staff to reveal info required to care for their clients. Furthermore, a patient has to sign a consent form before a medical provider can provide his or her health details to life insurance companies, banks, or advertising agencies for functions unconnected to their medical treatment.

    Ban on Advertising

    The privacy law also places new limitations on using a client’s data for promotional activities. Medical dispensaries, insurance providers, and health practitioners must acquire a patient’s direct approval before providing his or her health information for advertising purposes.

    Tougher State Regulations

    These national privacy specifications have no impact on state regulations that offer supplemental privacy rights to clients. They are cumulative laws that establish a countrywide “baseline” of privacy criteria that shields all U.S. citizens, and all state regulations that provide extra rights are still applicable.

    Private Communications

    According to the privacy law, clients may ask their physicians and insurance providers to make sure that their interactions with them are kept private.

    Complaints

    Clients can register an official complaint concerning the privacy procedures of their health or insurance provider. These complaints may be submitted straight to the medical practitioner, insurance company, or HHS, which is responsible for looking into complaints and upholding the privacy rule.

    Insurance Companies

    The privacy law demands that insurance providers, medical dispensaries, physicians, and other related companies set up guidelines and processes to safeguard the privacy of sensitive medical details concerning their clients. These standards remain adaptable so that various health organizations can apply them as needed within their companies. Along with the specifications listed above, insurance-related companies must do a few extra things to protect their clients’ privacy:

    Written Privacy Practices

    The law demands that insurance companies and providers have written confidentiality practices, which include ensuring that personnel have access to secure data and understand how and when it may be used.

    Staff Instruction and Privacy Officer

    Related companies must instruct their staff members on their privacy practices and assign someone to enforce the processes.

    Public Duties

    In some cases, the law allows included companies to continue particular active releases of medical data for certain public duties. These allowed releases include emergencies, body identifications, and governmental defense activities.

    Treatment Policy

    Some of the treatments that are provided by Neuro Injury Specialists are not paid by the insurance companies, therefore patients are responsible to pay for their services.
    Services can be denied at any time.

    Appointment Policy

    An appointment in our office is a bond of trust that we will be here to serve you, and you will be present for treatment. We anticipate mutual respect for each others’ time. We will see you at your appointed time, and we ask for your adherence to your visit as scheduled.

    Notice to Website Viewers

    This web site is provided for information and education purposes only. No doctor/patient relationship is established by your use of this site. No diagnosis or treatment is being provided. The information contained here should be used in consultation with a dentist of your choice.

    No guarantees or warranties are made regarding any of the information contained within this web site. This web site is not intended to offer specific medical, dental or surgical advice to anyone. Further, this web site and Neuro Injury Specialists take no responsibility for web sites hyper-linked to this site and such hyper-linking does not imply any relationships or endorsements of the linked sites.

    HIPAA Policy

    This HIPAA notice describes how health information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully. The privacy of your health information is important to us.

    Accessibility Policy

    nycdentalimplantscenter.com strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. nycdentalimplantscenter.com has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.

    If you have trouble seeing our website, we recommend reviewing the resources listed below to help optimize your computer and browser to improve your online experience:

    • Use the keyboard to navigate screens
    • Magnify your screen
    • Change background and text colors
    • Make your mouse pointer more visible (Windows only)

    For more information – www.ssa.gov

    The guides above, referenced by the ada.gov website will help you customize your particular web browser and computer to achieve the best results. The GDW site is designed to be able to be read aloud, navigated by keyboard only, allow increased or decreased text size, or changing of its colors for your accessibility needs.

    Closed Captioning

    Closed captioning (CC) provides a visual display of text that is synchronized with the video presentation and audio tracks. The term “Closed” indicates that the captions are not visible unless they are activated by the user.
    Learn how to turn captioning on and off for YouTube by clicking here.

    Increase Text Size

    To increase text size in most web browsers simply hold down the Ctrl key (Command key on a Macintosh) and press the + (plus) key to increase text size or – (minus) key to reduce text size.

    BrowseAloud

    BrowseAloud is browser plug-in for people who find it difficult to read online.

    By reading text aloud and highlighting the words as they are spoken, BrowseAloud can help people with learning disabilities, English as a second language, and mild visual impairments:

    If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions or need assistance, please contact us at (718) 998-9890.

    Neuro Injury Specialists
    2279 Coney Island Ave, Ste 204
    Brooklyn, NY 11223
    ☎ (718) 998-9890