THOMAS ORTHODONTICS CONSENT FOR USE AND DISCLOSURE OF HEALTH INFORMATION
SECTION A: PATIENT GIVING CONSENT
Name (First, Last):
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Telephone:	E-Mail:
Patient #:	Social Security #:
SECTION B: TO THE PATIENT-PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS CAREFULLY
Purpose of Consent: By signing this form, you will consent to our use and disclosure of your protected health information to carry out treatment, payment activities, and healthcare operations. Your consent includes electronic communication between our office and yourself, 3rd party insurance, and other dental and health professionals as needed to communicate treatment decisions. This electronic communication can and may include non-encrypted email, fax and text messaging.
Notice of Privacy Practices: You have the right to read our Notice of Privacy Practices before you decide whether to sign this Consent. Our Notice provides a description of our treatment, payment activities, and healthcare operations, of the uses and disclosures we may make of your protected health information, and of other important matters about your protected health information. A copy of our Notice accompanies this Consent. We encourage you to read it carefully and completely before signing this Consent. We reserve the right to change our privacy practices as described in our Notice of Privacy Practices. If we change our privacy practices, we will issue a revised Notice of Privacy Practices, which will contain the changes. Those changes may apply to any of your protected health information that we maintain.
You may obtain a copy of our Notice of Privacy Practices, including any revisions of our Notice, at any time by contacting:       Contact Person: Dr. Jess Thomas       Telephone: 262-251-6820 Fax: 262-251-8081       Address: N84 W15994 Menomonee Ave. Menomonee Falls, WI 53051
Right to Revoke: You will have the right to revoke this Consent at any time by giving us written notice of your revocation submitted to the Contact Person listed above. Please understand that revocation of this Consent will not affect any action we took in reliance on this Consent before we received your revocation, and that we may decline to treat you or to continue treating you if you revoke this Consent.
SIGNATURE
I acknowledge that I have had full opportunity to read and consider the contents of this Consent form and your Notice of Privacy Practices. I understand that, by signing this Consent form, I am giving my consent to your use and disclosure of my protected health information to carry out treatment, payment activities and health care operations.
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