Privacy Statement

Thank you for visiting the McGuff web site and for reviewing our Privacy Policy. Our policy is as follows

When you visit our web site, we collect no information about you, unless you choose to provide information to us.

We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.

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If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, electronic commerce transactions, etc., we will only maintain the information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication unless otherwise indicated by yourself.

However, all communications addressed to the McGuff Company are maintained, as required by law, for historical purposes. These communications are archived, but are also protected by the Privacy Act which restricts our use of them, yet permits certain disclosures.

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.

McGuff Compounding Pharmacy Services, Inc. (McGuff CPS) is not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) because we do not bill insurance companies. However, we do agree that patient information should be protected.

We want patients to know that we protect patient information, and we will not use or disclose an individual patient’s health information except for treatment, payment, or regular health care operations.

A. Patients’ Rights

Patients have the right to view their record and request for changes to be made. We will make this information available to patients or deny this information within 5 days after receiving the request. If we deny the request, we will explain the denial and describe the process to appeal the denial.

Patients have a right to ask for an accounting of every disclosure of their patient history information that is not related to treatment, payment, or health care operations or not specifically excluded by HIPAA. McGuff CPS does not disclose any patient history information that is not related to treatment, payment, or health care operations or not specifically excluded by HIPAA.

Patients have the right to complain to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

c. If a relative or friend picks up the medication, the pharmacist will use his/her professional judgment and disclose only pertinent and relevant information. The relative or friend will be told that the patient is encouraged to call and speak directly with a pharmacist if the patient has any questions.

a. Phone consultations will be conducted where no other patient may overhear conversations.

b. Patients may request that no information be given to anyone other than himself/herself. McGuff CPS will comply with that request. E.g. If a patient has so requested, the patient’s spouse, other relative, or friend will be given no information.

D. Year-end Tax Requests

Requests for year-end reports for income tax purposes will be furnished to patients when requested in writing by the patient.

2. In those instances where the patient’s relative or caregiver is requesting this information instead of the patient, a written request with the signature of the patient’s legal guardian must be presented.

E. Communication with Other Health Care Providers

McGuff CPS employees do not disclose more than the “minimum amount of information necessary” to other health care providers to accomplish a particular purpose.

For example, if a Doctor calls and asks for the medications his/her patient is receiving from us, we would consider that a reasonable request and provide that information. However, we will not given additional information that may be personal such as method of payment.

HIPAA requires all health care providers to obtain patient authorization before use or disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI) that does not involve treatment, payment, or health care operations.

McGuff CPS employees do not use or disclose PHI except when that PHI involves treatment, payment, or health care operations.

McGuff Company does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or statute.

This site is maintained by the McGuff Company and VIA NET. Works USA . It is protected by various provisions of Title 18, U.S. Code. Violations of Title 18 are subject to criminal prosecution in federal court.

For site security purposes, personal information purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized law enforcement investigations, and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these sources may be used to help identify an individual.