PRIVACY POLICY

This web site, www.drbova.com, does not collect any information from you.  Nor does it place any identification data (such as a "tracking cookie") on your computer. Unless you choose to contact our office, by telephone, email, or in person we have no mechanism for knowing that you have visited the web site.

Information collected from you by any other means, including telephone calls, emails, and personal visits to the office, is protected by federal law under the statutes of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. In brief, HIPAA mandates that we protect all identifiable health care information, using it only to:

• Provide and coordinate your treatment among a number of health care providers who may be involved in that treatment directly and indirectly;

• Obtain payment from third-party payers for your health care services;

• Conduct normal health care operations such as quality assessment and improvement activities.