NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

FORM #4 --- Please compete these forms, and bring them with you for your first appointment. It will save you several minutes! This 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. Thank You, Dr. Waldrop and staff. OUR LEGAL DUTY We are required by applicable federal and state law to maintain the privacy of your health information. We are also required to give you this Notice about our privacy practices, our legal duties, and your rights concerning your health information. We must follow the privacy practices that are described in this Notice while it is in effect. This Notice takes effect (April 1, 2006), and will remain in effect until we replace it. We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this Notice at any time, provided such changes are permitted by applicable law. We reserve the right to make the changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our Notice effective for all health information that we maintain, including health information we created or received before we made the changes. Before we make a significant change in our privacy practices, we will change this Notice and make the new Notice available upon request. You may request a copy of our Notice at any time. For more information about our privacy practices, or for additional copies of this Notice, please contact us using the information listed at the end of this Notice. USES AND DISCLOSURES OF HEALTH INFORMATION We use and disclose health information about you for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations. For example: Treatment: We may use or disclose your health information to a physician or other healthcare provider providing treatment to you. Payment: We may use and disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you. Healthcare Operations: We may use and disclose your health information in connection with our healthcare operations. Healthcare operations include quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of healthcare professionals, evaluating practitioner and provider performance, conducting training programs, accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities. Your Authorization: In addition to our use of your health information for treatment, payment or healthcare operations, you may give us written authorization to use your health information or to disclose it to anyone for any purpose. If you give us an authorization, you may revoke it in writing at any time. Your revocation will not affect any use or disclosures permitted by your authorization while it was in effect. Unless you give us a written authorization, we cannot use or disclose your health information for any reason except those described in this Notice. To Your Family and Friends: We must disclose your health information to you, as described in the Patient Rights section of this Notice. We may disclose your health information to a family member, friend or other person to the extent necessary to help with your healthcare or with payment for your healthcare, but only if you agree that we may do so. Persons Involved In Care: We may use or disclose health information to notify, or assist in the notification of (including identifying or locating) a family member, your personal representative or another person responsible for your care, of your location, your general condition, or death. If you are present, then prior to use or disclosure of your health information, we will provide you with an opportunity to object to such uses or disclosures. In the event of your incapacity or emergency circumstances, we will disclose health information based on a determination using our professional judgment disclosing only health information that is directly relevant to the person's involvement in your healthcare. We will also use our professional judgment and our experience with common practice to make reasonable inferences of your best interest in allowing a person to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, x-rays, or other similar forms of health information. Marketing Health-Related Services: We will not use your health information for marketing communications without your written authorization. Required by Law: We may use or disclose your health information when we are required to do so by law. Abuse or Neglect: We may disclose your health information to appropriate authorities if we reasonably believe that you are a possible victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence or the possible victim of other crimes. We may disclose your health information to the extent necessary to avert a serious threat to your health or safety or the health or safety of others. National Security: We may disclose to military authorities the health information of Armed Forces personnel under certain circumstances. We may disclose to authorized federal officials health information required for lawful intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities. We may disclose to correctional institution or law enforcement official having lawful custody of protected health information of inmate or patient under certain circumstances. Appointment Reminders: We may use or disclose your health information to provide you with appointment reminders (such as voicemail messages, postcards, or letters). PATIENT RIGHTS Access: You have the right to look at or get copies of your health information, with limited exceptions. You may request that we provide copies in a format other than photocopies. We will use the format you request unless we cannot practicably do so. (You must make a request in writing to obtain access to your health information. You may obtain a form to request access by using the contact information listed at the end of this Notice. We will charge you a reasonable cost-based fee for expenses such as copies and staff time. You may also request access by sending us a letter to the address at the end of this Notice. If you request copies, we will charge you $0.___ for each page, $___ per hour for staff time to locate and copy your health information, and postage if you want the copies mailed to you. If you request an alternative format, we will charge a cost-based fee for providing your health information in that format. If you prefer, we will prepare a summary or an explanation of your health information for a fee. Contact us using the information listed at the end of this Notice for a full explanation of our fee structure.) Disclosure Accounting: You have the right to receive a list of instances in which we or our business associates disclosed your health information for purposes, other than treatment, payment, healthcare operations and certain other activities, for the last 6 years, but not before April 14, 2003. If you request this accounting more than once in a 12-month period, we may charge you a reasonable, cost-based fee for responding to these additional requests. Restriction: You have the right to request that we place additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your health information. We are not required to agree to these additional restrictions, but if we do, we will abide by our agreement (except in an emergency). Alternative Communication: You have the right to request that we communicate with you about your health information by alternative means or to alternative locations. {You must make your request in writing.} Your request must specify the alternative means or location, and provide satisfactory explanation how payments will be handled under the alternative means or location you request. Amendment: You have the right to request that we amend your health information. (Your request must be in writing, and it must explain why the information should be amended.) We may deny your request under certain circumstances. Electronic Notice: If you receive this Notice on our Web site or by electronic mail (e-mail), you are entitled to receive this Notice in written form. QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS If you want more information about our privacy practices or have questions or concerns, please contact us. If you are concerned that we may have violated your privacy rights, or you disagree with a decision we made about access to your health information or in response to a request you made to amend or restrict the use or disclosure of your health information or to have us communicate with you by alternative means or at alternative locations, you may complain to us using the contact information listed at the end of this Notice. You also may submit a written complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will provide you with the address to file your complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upon request. We support your right to the privacy of your health information. We will not retaliate in any way if you choose to file a complaint with us or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contact Officer: H.L. Waldrop, D.D.S. Telephone: (309) 691-6402 E-mail: hlwaldrop@hotmail.com Address: 1717 W. Candletree Drive, Ste. 1-A, Peoria, IL. 61614 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT OF NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES I, _____________________________________________________ have received a copy of this office's Notice of Privacy Practices. ____________________________________________________ [Please print name] ____________________________________________________ [Signature] ____________________________________________________ [Date] For Office Use Only We attempted to obtain written acknowledgement of receipt of our Notice of Privacy Practices, but acknowledgement could not be obtained because: [ ] Individual refused to sign [ ] Communications barriers prohibited obtaining the acknowledgement [ ] An emergency situation prevented us from obtaining acknowledgement [ ] Other [Please Specify] CONSENT FOR PURPOSES OF TREATMENT, PAYMENT AND HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS I, the undersigned, herby execute this Consent for Purposes of Treatment, Payment, and Healthcare Operations [this "Consent"] as written evidence of my consent to the use or disclosure of my protected health information [as defined below] by Dr. Waldrop or his staff for the purpose of diagnosing or providing treatment to me, obtaining payment for my health care bills or to conduct health care operations by Dr. Waldrop, D.D.S. I understand that diagnosis or treatment of me by Dr. Waldrop may be conditional upon execution of this Consent. I understand that my "protected health information" for purposes of this Consent is health information, including demographic information, that [1] is created or received by Dr. Waldrop [2] relates to my past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to me, or the past, present or future payment for the provision of health care to me; and [3] identifies me or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify me. RIGHT TO REVIEW NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES I understand I have a right to review Dr. Waldrop's Notice of Privacy Practices prior to signing this document for a more complete description the types of uses and disclosures of my protected health information that will occur in my treatment, payment of my bills or in the performance of health care operations of Dr. H.L. Waldrop, D.D.S. A copy of Dr. Waldrop's Notice of Privacy Practices for this office has been offered to me. The notice of Privacy Practices describes the Notice of Privacy Practices for Dr. H.L. Waldrop, D.D.S. This Notice of Privacy Practices also describes my rights and Dr. Waldrop's duties with respect to my protected health information. I understand that Dr. H.L. Waldrop reserves the right to change his privacy practices that are described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and by executing this consent, I agree that Dr. Waldrop has informed me that the terms of the Notice of Privacy Practices may change and that I may obtain a revised Notice of Privacy Practices by calling the office and requesting a revised copy be sent in the mail or asking for one at the time of my next appointment. RIGHT TO REQUEST RESTRICTION I understand I have the right to request that Dr. H.L. Waldrop restrict how my protected health information is used or disclosed to carry out treatment, payment or healthcare operations and that Dr. Waldrop is not required to agree to the restrictions that I may request. However, if Dr. H.L. Waldrop agrees to a restriction that I request, the restriction is binding on Dr. H.L. Waldrop. RIGHT TO REVOKE CONSENT IN WRITING I understand that I have the right to revoke this consent, in writing, at any time, except to the extent that Dr. H.L. Waldrop has taken actions in reliance on this consent. ______________________________________________________________ Signature of Patient or Personal Representative ______________________________________________________________ Name of Patient or Personal Representative [Please Print] ______________________________________________________________ Date ______________________________________________________________ Description of Personal Representative's Authority © 2002 American Dental Association All Rights Reserved Reproduction and use of this form by dentists and their staff is permitted. Any other use, duplication or distribution of this form by any other party requires the prior written approval of the American Dental Association.