Your Provider's Role at Sound Mind Psychiatric Associates
Sound Mind Psychiatry is not a traditional group practice. The providers here are passionate about delivering excellent care, but they are not business partners or employees of the practice. Each one is a fully independent practitioner, running an individual private practice business, in a shared space.
It’s important for you to know that “Sound Mind Psychiatry” is simply a name for the space that we share. Having a name makes it simpler for our office worker to answer the phone, for the mailman to know that mail is in the right spot, and facilitates individual marketing efforts. Each practitioner pays rent to a small administrative company. This company manages the payment of rent, utility bills, and payroll for office assistants. It does not dictate, restrict, or in any way govern the practice of the individual practitioners who see patients in this space.
Your provider has full authority to determine what services they provide, to whom, and the manner in which services are provided. This means that they are fully free to use their individual talents, experience, and interests however they feel will best serve their patients. This also means that they are fully accountable for maintaining their licensure, certifications, malpractice insurance, and for their own clinical decision-making. At no time will “Sound Mind Psychiatry,” or any of the practitioners renting space influence or be held liable for another practitioner’s actions.
Each provider is responsible for maintaining his or her own patient medical records, and for determining how and when those records will be released. As such, requests for “Sound Mind Psychiatry” to release medical records cannot be honored. You must name your specific provider in any request to release medical records. Providers at Sound Mind Psychiatry have a shared scheduling/medical record system, but HIPAA regulations prohibit providers from accessing the chart notes of patients not under their care.
While Sound Mind Psychiatry office staff assists providers in the collection of balances due, all payments are given to the provider who rendered the service. Please make any checks out to your specific provider.
Please direct any concerns about this notice, or about your care, to your specific provider.
It’s important for you to know that “Sound Mind Psychiatry” is simply a name for the space that we share. Having a name makes it simpler for our office worker to answer the phone, for the mailman to know that mail is in the right spot, and facilitates individual marketing efforts. Each practitioner pays rent to a small administrative company. This company manages the payment of rent, utility bills, and payroll for office assistants. It does not dictate, restrict, or in any way govern the practice of the individual practitioners who see patients in this space.
Your provider has full authority to determine what services they provide, to whom, and the manner in which services are provided. This means that they are fully free to use their individual talents, experience, and interests however they feel will best serve their patients. This also means that they are fully accountable for maintaining their licensure, certifications, malpractice insurance, and for their own clinical decision-making. At no time will “Sound Mind Psychiatry,” or any of the practitioners renting space influence or be held liable for another practitioner’s actions.
Each provider is responsible for maintaining his or her own patient medical records, and for determining how and when those records will be released. As such, requests for “Sound Mind Psychiatry” to release medical records cannot be honored. You must name your specific provider in any request to release medical records. Providers at Sound Mind Psychiatry have a shared scheduling/medical record system, but HIPAA regulations prohibit providers from accessing the chart notes of patients not under their care.
While Sound Mind Psychiatry office staff assists providers in the collection of balances due, all payments are given to the provider who rendered the service. Please make any checks out to your specific provider.
Please direct any concerns about this notice, or about your care, to your specific provider.