HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

Sutton Place Dental Associates
Effective Date: January 1, 2024

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.

This Notice applies to the dental and medical information maintained by Sutton Place Dental Associates.

How We Use and Share Your Information

We may use or disclose your health information for:

• Treatment: To provide and coordinate your care—for example, sharing radiographs with a specialist involved in your treatment.
• Payment: To bill and obtain payment—for example, submitting treatment information to your dental insurer.
• Practice operations: To manage our practice and improve care—for example, reviewing records to evaluate treatment quality.
• Service providers: To obtain services such as billing, scheduling, and secure data storage. Business associates must protect your information under agreements required by HIPAA.

When applicable legal requirements are met, we may also use or disclose information for:

• Public-health activities, such as disease reporting, product recalls, and reporting medication reactions.
• Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence.
• Preventing or lessening a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
• Health-oversight activities, including authorized audits, inspections, and investigations.
• Court or administrative orders, subpoenas meeting legal requirements, and certain law-enforcement purposes.
• Workers’ compensation, approved or otherwise legally permitted research, organ donation, and the duties of coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors.
• Authorized military, national-security, protective-service, and correctional activities.
• Other disclosures required by law, including HHS reviews of our HIPAA compliance.

Additional federal or New York State protections may limit these disclosures. We will follow applicable requirements.
Information disclosed to a recipient may be shared again and may no longer be protected by HIPAA.

Your Choices and Authorization

We may share relevant information with family, friends, or others involved in your care or payment, or for disaster relief, when you agree or have an opportunity to object. If you cannot express your preference, we may use professional judgment to make disclosures in your best interest, as permitted by law.

Marketing, sales of health information, and most uses or disclosures of psychotherapy notes require written authorization, subject to legal exceptions. Other uses or disclosures not described in this Notice also require your written authorization.

You may revoke an authorization in writing, except to the extent that we have already relied on it.