Patient’s Rights

You have the right to:

• Be treated with dignity and respect
• Know the names of people serving you
• Have privacy and confidentiality of your records
• Receive explanations, education, and counseling
• Review your medical records with a clinician
• Consent to or refuse any care or treatment
• Involvement in own treatment plan
• Obtain care from other clinicians within the primary care medical home:
  • Seek second opinion
  • Seek specialty care
• Select primary care provider of choice

Family Planning patients also have the right to:

• Decide whether or not to have children and when
• Know the effectiveness, possible side effects, and problems of all methods of birth control
• Participate in choosing a birth control method

You also have the responsibility to:

• Respect clinic policies
• Report any changes in your health
• Keep appointments or cancel at least 24 hours in advance
• Participate in self-management of your health goals
• Be honest about your medical history, and medication
• Be sure you understand who is in your care team
• Follow health advice and medical instructions

Open Payments Database Notice

The Open Payments database is a federal tool used to search payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals. It can be found at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov. For informational purposes only, a link to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments web page is provided here. The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires that detailed information about payment and other payments of value worth over ten dollars ($10) from manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologics to physicians and teaching hospitals be made available to the public.