Fees

Private paying patients are required to cover their fees at the time of service. If you cannot pay the entire invoice on the day, you will have 7 business days to pay any remaining balance or you may be subject to additional fees and charges associated with debt collection. No further services will be available for booking until the previous service is paid in full.

Private health insurers usually cover some, but not all associated fees and you are likely required to pay a gap payment. We have Medipass integrated with our practice management software to make healthcare claims easier for you. If your insurer is not registered with Medipass, you will need to pay in full before claiming reimbursement from the insurer online yourself with the invoice provided.

Cancellation Policy

We require a minimum of 24 hours notice for any cancellations or changes.

If you do not provide 24 hours’ notice, you will incur a cancellation fee of 50% of the original service.
If you need to cancel due to acute illness the cancellation fee will be waived if a subsequent consultation is rebooked within 7 days or the original date and time, pending practitioner availability.
If you do not attend your appointment without contacting the clinic first you are required to pay the original service price fee in full.

Privacy Policy

We are committed to handling personal information about you, including health information about you, in accordance with the requirements of the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988.

What kind of personal information do we collect about you?

We collect and hold the following kind of information about you:

your name, address, date of birth, email and contact details
information about your family or relatives
information about other health professionals involved in your care
any government identifiers such as Medicare number, DVA number. However, we do not use these for the purposes of identifying you in our practice
other health information about you such as: a record of your symptoms, your relevant medical history, the diagnosis made and the treatment we give you:
- specialist reports
- test results
- your appointment and billing details
- your prescriptions
- your healthcare identifier
- your help fund details
- other information about you collected for the purposes of providing care to you.

How do we collect and hold your personal information?

We will generally collect personal information about you in these ways:

directly from you when you give us your details (eg, face-to-face, over the phone,
via registration form or an online form)
from a person responsible for you
from a third party where we are permitted by law to do that (eg. other health care professionals involved in your care, from your health insurer, from the My Health Record system etc.).

Why do we collect and use information about you?

We primarily collect and use personal information about you to provide our physiotherapy services to you and to communicate with you and others involved in your care in relation to those services.

We also sometimes use that information for other purposes, including:

to help us manage our accounts and administrative services, including billing, arrangements with health funds, pursuing unpaid accounts, management of our IT systems and
to conduct accreditation, quality assurance or internal audits.

When and why might we share information about you with others?

We may disclose information about you to others outside of our practice as permitted or required
under law. This will include situations where we disclose information about you in order:

to comply with our legal obligations (eg. mandatory reporting under legislation,
responding to a court order or subpoena)
to consult with other health professionals involved in your healthcare
to get test results from diagnostic and pathology services
to claim on insurance
to communicate with your health fund, with government and other regulatory
bodies such as Medicare
to help us manage our accounts and administrative services (eg. billing or debt recovery, arrangements with health funds, pursuing unpaid accounts etc.)
to lessen or prevent a serious threat to a patient’s life, health or safety or a serious threat to public health or safety
to help in locating a missing person
to establish, exercise or defend an equitable claim through the My Health Record
to prepare the defence of anticipated or existing legal proceedings
to discharge notification obligations to liability insurers.

Your right to seek access to and to seek correction of the information we hold about you

You have the right to seek access to and correction of the personal information we hold about you.

We will normally respond to your request within 30 days. To make the request, you should contact sammy.hon2@gmail.com .

If you think that the information we hold about you is not correct, let us know in writing. We will
take reasonable steps to correct your personal information where the information is not accurate
or up-to-date. From time to time, we may also ask you to verify that the information we hold about
you is correct and current. And please notify us if and when your contact details change
(see ‘how to contact us’).

Security: how we hold your personal information

We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold about you. These are designed to
prevent unauthorised access, modification or disclosure and to prevent misuse and loss.
This includes:

holding information on an encrypted database
holding information in secure cloud storage
access to information restricted on a ‘need to know’ basis and
strong password protections when accessing the information on a computer.

Your right to receive treatment from us anonymously (or by using a pseudonym)

Where it is lawful and practicable for us to do so, you can be treated anonymously or through use
of a pseudonym (a name other than yours).

Disclosing information about you overseas
We do not propose to disclose information about you to anyone overseas. If we want to transfer
your personal information overseas, we will first seek your consent, unless we are required by
law to do the transfer.

If you have a privacy-related concern about us

If you have concerns about the way we’ve handled your privacy, let us know. You should do that in writing. We will then try to respond to you within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the
Australian Information Commission, whose contact details are:

Phone: 1300 363 992
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
Post: GPO Box 5218 Sydney New South Wales 2001

Website: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-complaints/

Updating this policy

We will update this policy from time to time, to reflect any changes in our information-handling
practices or the law or both.

We will notify you of changes to the policy by email.

How to contact us

To contact us about any privacy related issues, please email sammy.hon2@gmail.com .

Sammy Hon Physiotherapist

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