HIPAAPRIVACY

                  Effective Date of Notice: April 14, 2003 (Revised January 01, 2006)

                            NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICE
                                         Robert G. Alianiello, O.D.
                                          Alianiello Eye Care, Inc.
                                              11824 Belair Road
                                            Kingsville, MD 21087
              Phone: 410-593-9818 Fax: 410-593-9828 Email: DrRGA@yahoo.com
                                            AlianielloEyeCare.com
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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.
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We respect our legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give you notice
of our privacy practices. This notice describes how we protect your health information and what rights you have regarding it.

TREATMENT, PAYMENT, AND HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS
The most common reason why we use or disclose your health information is for treatment, payment, or health care operations.
Examples of how we use of disclose information for treatment purpose are: setting up an appointment for you; testing or
examining your eyes; prescribing glasses, contact lenses, or eye medications and faxing them to be filled; showing you low
vision aids; referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aids or services; or getting copies of your health
information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how we use or disclose your health
information for payment purposes are: asking you about your health or vision care plans, or other sources of payment; preparing
and sending bills or claims; and collecting unpaid amounts (either ourselves or through a collection agency or attorney). "Health
care operations" mean those administrative and managerial functions that we have to do in order to run our office. Examples of
how we use or disclose your health information for health care operations are: financial or billing audits; internal quality
assurance; personnel decisions; participation in managed care plans; defense of legal matters; business planing; and outside
storage of our records.
We routinely use your health information inside outside our office for these reasons, we usually will not ask you for special
written permission.

USES AND DISCLOSURES FOR OTHER REASONS WITHOUT PERMISSION
In some limited situations, the law allows or requires us to use or disclose your health information without your permission. Not
all of these situation will apply to us; some may never come up at our office at all. Such uses or disclosures are:

-       When a state or federal law mandates that certain health information be reported for a specific purpose;

-       for public health purposes, such as contagious disease reporting, investigation or surveillance; and notices to and
from the Federal Food and Drug Administration regarding drugs or medical devices;

-       disclosures to governmental authorities about victims of suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence;

-       uses and disclosures for health oversight activities, such as for the licensing of doctors; for audits by Medicare or
Medicaid; or for investigation of possible violations of health care laws;

-       disclosures for judicial and administrative proceedings, such as in response to subpoenas or orders of courts or
administrative agencies;

-       disclosures for law enforcement purposes, such as to provide information about someone who is or is suspected
to be a victim of a crime; to provide information about a crime at our office; or to report a crime that happened
somewhere else;

-       disclosure to a medical examiner to identify a dead person or to determine cause of death; or to funeral directors
to aid in burial; or to organizations that handle organ or tissue donations;

-       uses or disclosures for health related research;

-       uses and disclosures to prevent a serious threat to health or safety;

-       uses or disclosures for specialized government functions, such as for the protection of the president or high
ranking government officials; for lawful national intelligence activities; for military purposes; or for the evaluation
and health of members of the foreign service;

-       disclosures of de-identified information;

-       disclosures relating to worker's compensation programs;

-       disclosures of a "limited data set" for research, public health, or health care operations;

-       incidental disclosures that are an unavoidable by-product of permitted uses and disclosures;

-       disclosures to "business associates" who perform health care operations for us and who commit to respect the
privacy of your health information.

Unless you object, we will also share relevant information about your care with your family or friends who are helping you
with your eye care.

APPOINTMENT REMINDERS
We may call or write to remind you of scheduled appointments, or that it is time to make a routine appointment. We may also
call or write to notify you of other treatments or services available at our office that might help you. Unless you tell us
otherwise, we will mail you an appointment reminder on a postcard, and/or leave or a reminder message on your home
answering machine or with someone who answers your phone if you are not home.

OTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES
We will not make any other uses or disclosures of your health information unless you sign a written "authorization form." The
content of an "authorization form" is determined by federal law. Sometimes, we may initiate the authorization process if the use
or disclosure is our idea. Sometimes, you may initiate the process if it's your idea for us to send your information to someone
else. Typically, in this situation you will give us a properly completed authorization form, or you can use one of ours.
If we initiate the process and ask you to sign an authorization form, you do not have to sign it. If you do not sign the
authorization, we cannot make the use or disclosure. If you do sign one, you may revoke it at any time unless we have already
acted in reliance upon it. Revocations must be in writing. Send them to the office contact person named at the beginning of this
notice.

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION
The law gives you may rights regarding your health information. You can:

-       ask us to restrict our uses and disclosures for purposes of treatment (except emergency treatment), payment, or
health care operations. We do not have to agree to do this, but if we agree, we must honor the restrictions you
want. To ask for a restriction, send a written request to the office contact person at the address, fax, or email
shown at the beginning of this notice.

-       ask us to communicate with you in a confidential way, such as by phoning you at work rather than at home, by
mailing health information to a different address, or by using email to your personal email address. We will
accommodate these requests if they are reasonable, and if you pay us for any extra cost. If you want to ask for
confidential communications, send a written request to the office contact person at the address, fax, or email
shown at the beginning of this notice.

-       ask to see or get photocopies of your health information. By law, there are a few limited situations in which we
can refuse to permit access or copying. For the most part, however, you will be able to review or have a copy of
your health information within 30 days of asking us (or sixty days if the information is stored off-site). You may
have to pay for photocopies in advance. If we deny your request, we will send you a written explanation, and
instructions about how to get an impartial review of our denial if one is legally available. By law, we can have one
30 day extension of the time for us to give you access or photocopies if we send you a written notice of the
extension. If you want to review or get photocopies of your health information, send a written request to the
office contact person at the address, fax, or email shown at the beginning of this notice.

-       ask us to amend your health information if you think that it is incorrect or incomplete. If we agree, we will
amend the information within 60 days from when you ask us. We will send the corrected information to
persons who we know go the wrong information, and others that you specify. If we do not agree, you can write
a statement of your position, and we will include it with your health information along with any rebuttal statement
that we may write. Once your statement of position and/or our rebuttal is included with your health information,
we will send it along whenever we make a permitted disclosure of your health information. By law, we can have
one 30 day extension of time to consider a request for amendment if we notify you in writing of the extension.
If you want to ask us to amend your health information, send a written request, including your reasons for the
amendment, to the office contact person at the address, fax, or email shown at the beginning of this notice.

-       get a list of the disclosures that we have made of your health information withing the past six years (or a shorter
period if you want). By law, the list will not include: disclosures for purposes of treatment, payment, or
health care operations; disclosures with your authorization; incidental disclosures; disclosures required by law;
and some other limited disclosures. You are entitled to one such list per year without charge. If you want more
frequent lists, you will have to pay for them in advance. We will usually respond to your request within 60 days
of receiving it, but by law we can have one 30 day extension of time if we notify you of the extension in writing.
If you want a list, send a written request to the office contact person at the address, fax, or email shown at the
beginning of this notice.

-       get additional paper copies of this Notice of Privacy Practices upon request. If does not matter whether you got
one electronically or in paper form already. If you want additional paper copies, send a written request to the
office contact person at the address, fax, or email shown at the beginning of this notice.

OUR NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
By law, we must abide by the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices until we choose to change it. We reserve the right
to change this notice at any time as allowed by law. If we change this notice, the new privacy practices will apply to your
health information that we already have as well as to such information that we may generate in the future. If we change our
Notice of Privacy Practices, we will post the new notice in our office, have copies available in our office, and post it on our
web site.

COMPLAINTS
If you think that we have not properly respected the privacy of your health information, you are free to complain to us or
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you if you make a
complaint. If you want to complain to us, send a written complaint to the office contact person at the address, fax, or email
shown at the beginning of this notice.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you want more information about our privacy practices, call or visit the office contact person at the address or phone number
shown at the beginning of this notice.