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<tr> <td background="images/nav-rpt.gif" height="437"> <p align="center"> <a href="http://www.mednet-sites.com/mednet_launch.htm" target="_blank"><img alt="MedSites by MedNet Technologies, Inc." border="0" height="30" src="http://www.mednet-tech.com/comm_images/mednet_small_new.gif" width="73" align="left" hspace="15"> </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img border="0" src="images/nav-bottom.gif" width="150" height="60"></td> </tr> </table>  <p></td> <td width="15"></td> <td width="540" valign="top"> <table border="0" width="540" height="29" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="540" height="29"> <p align="right"> <img border="0" src="images/header-npp.gif" align="right" width="316" height="38"> </td> </tr> </table> <p><font face="Arial Black" size="2" color="#000080">Notice of Privacy Practices</font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-left: 50"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.<o:p> </font></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-left: 50"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.<o:p> </o:p> </font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">Keeping your health information confidential and secure and using it only as permitted by law is a top priority of Nassau Radiologic Group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You have the right to know how Nassau Radiologic Group uses and disclosures your health information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA), Nassau Radiologic Group can use your health information for Treatment, Payment and Health Care Operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In connection with “Treatment”, we may use or disclose your health information to other physicians or other healthcare providers who may be treating you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This may include, for example, our provision of state of the art password protected electronic access to your films via a secured website to other physicians who might require access to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In connection with “Payment”, we may use and disclose your health information to facilitate payment by health insurers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In connection with “Health Care Operations”, we may use and disclose your health information to facilitate our business operations, for example, quality assessment activities, reviewing the competency or qualifications of healthcare professionals, and licensing or credentialing activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We may also contact you by telephone to remind you of appointments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></h2> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Certain uses and disclosures that do not fall under Treatment, Payment, or Health Care Operations will require your written authorization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For example, if you would like us to send information to an employer, your written authorization may be required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>However, several kinds of disclosures do not require your written authorization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Where a third party is involved in your care and you wish for that third party to be present during conversations about your health, you may agree or permit us to disclose the health information to that individual without written authorization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We may use or disclose your health information when we are required to do so by law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For example, a government agency responsible for monitoring health care activities may require us to disclose your health information to it.<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"><o:p> </o:p> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">We value our patients and the various rights afforded to them under federal and state law to access health information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To that end, we recognize and will accommodate patients’ rights to restrict the disclosure of health information, if we agree to such restriction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will also accommodate patients’ rights to receive confidential communications of their health information, to inspect and copy their health information, to amend their health information, to receive an accounting of disclosures of their health information, and to receive a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices. <o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <o:p> </o:p> </font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 50"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">Nassau Radiologic Group values its patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In the event there are any issues or problems regarding the way your health information was handled by us, you may submit them to us in writing or to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You will not be retaliated against in any manner for raising any issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We look forward to providing quality service to you and to ensuring that your health information remains confidential.<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" align="right" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 222.0pt; margin-left: 50"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Effective as of April 14, 2003<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 25"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font> <p style="margin-left: 25"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font> <table border="0" width="540" height="33"> <tr> <td width="540" height="29"> <hr width="65%" color="#000080" size="1">  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" 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