This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

"Protected health information" means, with few exceptions, individually identifiable health information that is transmitted or maintained in any form or medium.

Delta Dental of Colorado is committed to safeguarding your protected health information. We restrict use and disclosure of protected health information to a limited number of employees, business associates, and other individuals or entities that we have determined need to use or disclose the information for treatment, payment, health care operations, and the other purposes described in this notice.

We are committed to protecting your rights as they relate to your health information. You have a right to:

• Adequate notice when Delta Dental uses or discloses your protected health information.
• Understand our legal duties with respect to this information.
• Request further restrictions on how we use and disclose your information.
• Access, amend and receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information.

In almost all cases, we may use and disclose protected health information for treatment, payment, and health care operations. For example, we may use and disclose protected health information:

• To communicate with the dentist who provides, coordinates, or manages your care;
• To determine how much or whom we should pay for covered services;
• To assess the quality of care that our participating dentists provide.

Click here  to download the complete Notice of Privacy Practices.