HIPAA Privacy Notice
ATL Dental Implants notice of Privacy Practices

Effective 10/03/2024

THIS PAGE DETAILS
HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION REGARDING YOU MAY BE UTILIZED AND/OR DISCLOSED.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS THIS INFORMATION.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY.

ENTITIES INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE

This notice details and applies to the practices of ATL Dental Implants and the practices followed by all of ATL Dental Implants workforce members who handle your medical information.

YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

ATL Dental Implants acknowledges that your medical information is personal and ATL Dental Implants is committed to protecting it. ATL Dental Implants maintains records and conducts treatments with aim of giving the highest level of protection to your medical and personal information, while still giving you the highest level of medical care. This notice applies to all records of your medical care received or created by ATL Dental Implants.

Other medical treatment providers (i.e. physicians, hospitals, home health agencies, etc.) may have differing policies or notices pertaining to the use and disclosure of your medical information. Those statements, policies, and guidelines do not apply to the policy provided in this notice.

The ways in which ATL Dental Implants may use and disclose medical information regarding you is detailed in this notice. Your medical information, also referred to as “protected health information,” includes your demographic information, or any other information that could identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health and related health care services.

In this notice, your rights, as well as certain obligations ATL Dental Implants has regarding the use and disclosure of your protected health information, will be detailed. ATL Dental Implants are required by name to:

Ensure medical and other information identifying you (protected health information) is kept private.
Provide you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information regarding you.
Follow the terms of the notice currently in effect.

USES AND DISCLOSURES FOR TREATMENT, PAYMENT AND HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS

As a patient at ATL Dental Implants, you provide consent for ATL Dental Implants to utilize your protected health information for specific activities, such as treatment, payment and other health care operations.

Your protected health information may be disclosed by ATL Dental Implants so that ATL Dental Implants and its medical professionals can provide treatment to you. Including but not limited to:

Using your past medical information in order to diagnose your present condition
ATL Dental Implants may provide information regarding your medical condition to another doctor to whom ATL Dental Implants refers you to for additional care.
ATL Dental Implants may also use and disclose protected health information regarding you so that ATL Dental Implants may be paid for the medical treatment ATL Dental Implants provides you.

For example, ATL Dental Implants will submit protected health information regarding you to your insurance company in order to receive payment for services ATL Dental Implants has provided you. ATL Dental Implants may also use and disclose protected health information regarding you for ATL Dental Implants’s health care operations.

ATL Dental Implants may use your protected health information to evaluate how ATL Dental Implants can better meet your needs or ATL Dental Implants may provide protected health information regarding you to an auditor who reviews books/files so that ATL Dental Implants may keep current licensing to provide medical services.

Other uses and disclosures of your protected health information

The following uses and disclosures of patient protected health information may be made without any additional authorization from you. (While not every use or disclosure is detailed, but rest assured that all uses and disclosures by ATL Dental Implants are only those permitted under the law).

Uses and disclosures for appointment reminders

To remind you of an appointment at the office we may use and disclose your medical information to contact you. Please contact our office in writing at the given address to request that such communications be made confidentially. ATL Dental Implants will accommodate all reasonable requests.

Mobile Information and SMS Consent
No mobile information, including phone numbers and SMS consent data, will be shared with any third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Additionally, all other categories of data handling exclude any text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information is strictly confidential and will not be disclosed to third parties.

Uses and disclosures to others involved in your healthcare

We may disclose your protected health information that directly relates the involvement of the following in your medical care:

A member of your family, relative, close friend, or any other person you identify.

In the event you are unable to agree or object to this disclosure, we may disclose such information as necessary if we determine that it is in your best interests based on our professional judgment.

Your protected health information may also be used or disclosed by us to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative or any other person responsible for your care of your location, general condition, or death.

Lastly, your protected health information may be used or disclosed by us to an authorized public or private entity to assist in disaster relief efforts and to coordinate uses and disclosures to family or other individuals involved in your health care.

Uses and disclosures in emergency situations

If at any time emergency treatment is needed, we may provide your protected health information to necessary parties. In this event we will attempt to obtain your permission and acknowledgement of this event where and when possible, which may occur after the treatment has been administered.

Uses and disclosures for health-related benefits or services

Time to time, we may use and disclose protected health information to inform you about certain health related benefits or services that may be of interest to you.

Uses and disclosures required by law

Your protected health information may be used or disclosed by ATL Dental Implants when required to do so by federal, state, or local law. This will be made in compliance with the law and will be limited to the relevant requirements of the law. If the law requires us to do so you will be notified of any such uses or disclosures. ATL Dental Implants must make disclosures to you and when required by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate or determine our compliance with the law.

Uses and disclosures related to communicable diseases

If authorized by law your protected health information may be used or disclosed, to a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading the disease or condition.

Disclosures for health oversight activities

ATL Dental Implants may disclose protected health information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. Such activities include, for example: audits, investigations, inspections.

Such activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, the delivery of healthcare, government benefit programs, other government regulatory programs and civil rights laws.

Disclosures of abuse or neglect

Your protected health information may be disclosed to a public health authority authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect. Moreover, we may disclose your protected health information if we believe that you have been a victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence to a governmental entity or agency authorized to receive such information. In such cases, the disclosure will only be made in accordance with practice state law.

Disclosures to the food and drug administration

Your protected health information may be disclosed to a person or company required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to report:
Adverse events
Product defects
Other problems,
Biologic product deviations
To track products;
To enable product recalls
To make repairs or replacements
To conduct post-market surveillance

As the agency is required to do.

Disclosures for lawsuits and disputes

In the event you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, your protected health information may be disclosed in response to a court order or administrative order. We may also disclose protected health information regarding you in response to:
Subpoenas
Discovery requests
Other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute

But this is only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.

Disclosures to law enforcement

Your protected health information may be disclosed by ATL Dental Implants if asked to do so by a law enforcement official, in response to:
Court orders
Subpoenas
Warrants
Summons
Or similar processes

Other related disclosures may include disclosures relating to individuals or organizations such as:
Armed Forces personnel
National security and intelligence agencies
Authorized federal officials for the protection of the President of the United States or other authorized persons or foreign heads of state

Disclosures to coroners, funeral directors, and organ donation

Your protected health information may be disclosed by ATL Dental Implants to a coroner or medical examiner for:
Identification purposes
Determining cause of death
For the coroner or medical examiner to perform other duties required by law.

We may also disclose protected health information regarding you to a funeral director in order to permit the funeral director to carry out legal duties, and may do so if death is reasonably anticipated. Your protected health information may also be disclosed for certain organ donations to which you may have agreed.

Disclosures for research

Your protected health information may be disclosed by ATL Dental Implants to researchers when their research has been approved and protocols have been established to ensure the privacy of your information. For research purposes, we may also disclose a limited set of your information, as allowed under the law.

Disclosures related to criminal activity

Consistent with federal and state laws, we may disclose your protected health information should we believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to:

Prevent or lessen a serious or imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public.
Or if it is necessary for law enforcement authorities to identify or apprehend an individual.

Disclosures for Workers’ Compensation

Your protected health information may be disclosed for Workers’ Compensation or similar programs. These programs provide benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses.

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

Right to inspect and copy

You have the right to inspect and copy protected health information that may be used to make decisions regarding your medical care. Both medical and billing records are usually included in this right. Requests must be submitted in writing. Should you request a copy of the information, we may charge a fee for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request. Requests to inspect and copy your information may only be denied in very limited circumstances and you have a right to request that any such denial be reviewed.

Right to request restrictions

You have the right to request that ATL Dental Implants restrict the use and disclosure of your protected health information for treatment, payment and health care operations. However, ATL Dental Implants are not required to agree to your request. If ATL Dental Implants does agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you emergency treatment.

To request restrictions, you must make your request in writing to 8200 Roberts Dr STE 125, Atlanta, GA 30350. And in your request, you must provide:

What information you want to limit.
Whether you want to limit our use, disclosure, or both.
To which parties you want these limits to apply.

Right to confidential communications

You have the right to request to receive private health information communications (such as appointment confirmations) by alternative means or at alternative locations. For instance: you can ask that ATL Dental Implants only contact you at work or by mail. For such requests, you must make your request in writing to 8200 Roberts Dr STE 125, Atlanta, GA 30350. ATL Dental Implants will not ask you the reason for your request. ATL Dental Implants will accommodate all reasonable requests. Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted.

Right to amend

You have the right to request that your protected health information be amended in the event that you feel that the protected health information ATL Dental Implants has regarding you is incorrect or incomplete. Only the health care entity (e.g., doctor, hospital, clinic, etc.) that created your protected health information is responsible for amending it. For more information pertaining to the procedures for submitting such a request, contact 8200 Roberts Dr STE 125, Atlanta, GA 30350.

Right to an accounting of disclosures

You have a right to an accounting of disclosures of your protected health information, for reasons other than treatment, payment or health care operations by ATL Dental Implants or any of the people or companies who perform treatment, payment or health care operations on our behalf.

You must submit a request in writing to 8200 Roberts Dr STE 125, Atlanta, GA 30350 in order to request this list of disclosures ATL Dental Implants made of protected health information regarding you. Your request must state a time period which may not be longer than six (6) years prior to the date of your request and may not include dates before May 12, 2021. Your request should indicate the form in which you want the list (for example, on paper or electronically). You will be charged for photocopying.

Right to a paper copy of this notice

You have the right to a paper copy of this Notice. You may ask us to give you a copy of this notice at any time.

You may obtain a copy of this Notice at our website: https://atlimplants.com/

To obtain a paper copy of this Notice, contact (470) 243-9596.

To learn more about these procedures, or to make any of these requests, you should contact our Office Manager at (470) 243-9596.

Changes to this notice

We reserve the right to change this notice. ATL Dental Implants also reserves the right to make the revised or changed Notice effective for protected health information ATL Dental Implants already has regarding you, as well as any information ATL Dental Implants may create or receive in the future. ATL Dental Implants will post a copy of the current Notice on ATL Dental Implants website: https://atlimplants.com/. The Notice will contain the effective date.

Complaints

You may file a complaint with DR. SKYLER F. HOLCOMB Office Manager or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the event you believe your privacy rights have been violated and/or that ATL Dental Implants or DR. SKYLER F. HOLCOMB has not followed this policy.

To submit a complaint with DR. SKYLER F. HOLCOMB contact our Office Manager, (business address}. All complaints must be filed in writing. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.

Other uses of protected health information

Your written permission (“authorization”) is required for other uses and disclosures of your protected health information not covered by this notice or the laws that apply to DR. SKYLER F. HOLCOMB. Should you provide us permission to use or disclose protected health information regarding you, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. Should you revoke your permission, ATL Dental Implants will no longer use or disclose protected health information regarding you for the reasons covered by your authorization. Please understand that ATL Dental Implants is unable to take back any disclosures ATL Dental Implants may have already made with your permission, and that ATL Dental Implants is required to retain records of the medical treatment or other services that ATL Dental Implants provided to you.

Questions?

For any questions or concerns regarding this notice, feel free to reach out to the Office Manager at ATL Dental Implants.