Privacy Policy

Abdallah Karam, MD, SC
2101 Arlington Heights Road, Suite 100
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
(847) 427-2100


Notice of Privacy Practices

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. If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact our Privacy Contact who is Dr. Karam’s Practice Manager.

This practice creates a medical record of your health information in order to treat you, receive payment for services rendered to you, and to comply with certain policies and laws. We are also required by law to provide you with this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices. In addition, the law requires us to ask you to sign an Acknowledgment that you received this Notice.

We are required by federal and state law to maintain the privacy of your medical information. Medical information is also called “protected health information” or “PHI.” We are also required by law to notify you if you are affected by a breach of your unsecured PHI.

This is a list of some of the types of uses and disclosures of PHI that may occur:

Legal Requirements:

We may use and disclose your PHI as required or authorized by law. For example, we may use or disclose your PHI for the following reasons:

Your Rights:

You have certain rights under federal and state laws relating to your PHI. Some of these rights are described below:

We are required to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect; however, we may change this Notice. If we materially change this Notice, you can get a revised Notice on our website at www.yourdockares.com, by requesting one in person to the office or by mail. Changes to this Notice are applicable to the health information we already have.

Effective Date: April 14,2003
Revision Date: August 29, 2007
Current Revision Date: October 10, 2013