HIPAA is short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.  HIPAA was created to improve health insurance portability, prevent healthcare fraud & misuse, and simplify healthcare administration while protecting the privacy of individual’s health information. HIPAA regulations allow the patient to have more control over who may access their patient information.

OSS is committed to protecting the privacy rights of it’s patients. If you have questions about patient privacy, please download the Notice of Privacy Practices below. This notice will explain how we may use and disclose your medical information, our obligations related to the use and disclosure of your medical information and your rights related to medical information that we have about you. This notice applies to the medical information that is generated in or by OSS.

With a few exceptions, we are required to obtain your authorization for the use or discloser of information for reasons other than for treatment, payment or health care operations. Our Authorization to Release Information form is also available for download.