PRIVACY POLICY
We guarantee your privacy.
At Ridge Family Practice, P.C., we are committed to protecting your privacy. Ridge Family Practice, P.C. does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to other companies. We use the information we collect about you to provide a more personalized experience.
It may be helpful for you to know how we use the information we collect:
- We may use health information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services.
- We may disclose health information about you to doctors, nurses, technicians, office staff or other personnel who are involved in taking care of you and your health.
- Different personnel in our office may share information about you and disclose information to people who do not work in our office in order to coordinate your care, such as phoning in prescriptions to your pharmacy, scheduling lab work and ordering x-rays. Family members and other healthcare providers who may be a part of your medical care outside this office may require information about you that we have.
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We may use and disclose health information about you so that the treatment and services you receive at this office may be billed to and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company or a third party. For example, we may need to give your health plan information about a service you received here so your health plan will pay us or reimburse you for the service. We may also tell your health plan about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior aproval, or to determine whether your plan will cover the treatment.
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We may use and disclose health information about you in order to run the office and make sure that you and our other patients receive quality care. For example, we may use your health information to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We may also use health information about all or many of our patients to help us decide what additional services we should offer; how we can become more efficient, or whether certain new treatments are effective.
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You will be given a complete list of the way we use your medical information when you register as a patient in our office. If you would like a copy of this privacy notice in advance, please call our office at (712) 322-5899 or contact us.
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Ridge Family Practice, P.C.. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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