Results so natural that, "We won't tell if you don't."™
NYC's Best Kept Secret
212.288.1500
135 E 74th St, New York , NY 10021

Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS is a Double Board-Certified, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon in NYC. His superior surgical and artistic skills are requested by women, men and children worldwide looking for top-quality care with extraordinarily natural-looking results.
Dr. Romo III is regularly featured in the media for his medical acumen and surgical expertise. He has been featured on EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, The Doctors TV show, CBS News, W magazine, Allure magazine, New York magazine & more!




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NYC's Best Keep Secret
Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS hereinafter referred to as "Romo Plastic Surgery," understands the sensitivity of your personal information. Dr. Romo will not share or sell your information with other parties. All personal information is kept private and secure. This statement describes the practices that Dr. Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS, will follow with respect to the privacy of site users.
This statement may be reviewed and changed as new services and programs are introduced, which may require modifications to this statement. Dr. Romo encourages you to re-read this Privacy Policy periodically.
Romo Plastic Surgery does not collect personally identifiable information regarding the users of its internet site – including e-mail addresses – without consent of the user. In some instances, Romo Plastic Surgery may request that a user voluntarily supply information, including e-mail address, street address, telephone number or other information, to allow us to personalize and enhance the user’s site visit or to provide the opportunity for follow-up after the site visit. Whether a user provides information is entirely voluntary.
Use of information provided
If you voluntarily provide information you consent to the collection and use of your personally identifiable information by the practice. However, Romo Plastic Surgery does not sell or rent personal information collected through this site to anyone. Romo Plastic Surgery
may provide aggregate statistics about site visitors, such as volume, traffic patterns, referral sources and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will not include personally identifiable information about the users. If you have voluntarily provided personally identifiable information, Romo Plastic Surgery may, from time to time, send mail or e-mail to you regarding products and services. If you do not want to receive such offers and mailings, you can easily unsubscribe at anytime.
Regarding the Use of Cookies
Romo Plastic Surgery may utilize a standard Internet technology called “cookies” to collect information about how the practice’s site is accessed and utilized. Cookies allow a website operator to determine that a user visited the site in the past and thus save and remember preferences that the user may have set while browsing the site.
Cookies do not allow the website to retrieve any other data from your hard drive or obtain your e-mail address. Romo Plastic Surgery may also make use of memory-based cookies in support of authenticating the user of certain Romo Plastic Surgery website applications. While users maintain the ability to modify browser settings to either accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or be notified when a cookie is being sent, it may not be possible to utilize certain Romo Plastic Surgery services that require registration if your browser is set to reject cookies.
HIPAA Compliant
Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS, will not send you any unsolicited information via email or any other form or means regarding commercial offers or advertisements without prior consent. We value our patients’ privacy and trust, and will make every attempt to safeguard these assets.
Because email is not a completely secure means of communication, please do not use email if you wish to keep your communications private and confidential.
As of April 14, 2003, we are required under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to maintain the privacy of your health information, and to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Rights & Practices.
This document explains in detail how we use your Protected Health Information (PHI). Your PHI includes any information that could identify you, as well as your past, present, or future physical or mental health condition(s). Your acknowledgement of receipt of this document will be required the first time you receive services after April 14, 2003, at Romo Plastic Surgery.
Examples of how we can use and disclose your information without your authorization include:
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Treatment: We keep a record of each visit and/or admission. These records may include your test results, diagnoses, medications and/or other therapies. These records are used and disclosed to allow doctors, nurses, and clinical staff, as well as spiritual- and health- care providers offer high-quality treatment to meet your needs.
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Payment: We maintain a record of – and may use and disclose information related to – services and supplies that you receive at each visit and/or admission, so that we can be paid by you, by an insurance company, or by a third party. We may inform your health insurance company and/or other payors about an upcoming treatment or service, which will require their prior approval and authorization for payment. Failure to secure authorization for payment by insurance or a third party will shift financial accountability to the patient.
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Health Care Operations: We use and disclose your medical information to improve the services that we provide, to train staff and students, to advance business management, and to enhance customer service. purposes. Your information may be shared among Dr. Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS, other health care providers, third-party payors, and our business associates to facilitate treatment, payment or health-care operations.
Additional Uses and Disclosures:
There are additional times when we are permitted or required to use/disclose medical information without your permission.
These circumstances are listed below:
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In emergency treatment situations;
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If required by law;
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To assist incommunicative patients;
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For law enforcement;
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For reporting child/elder/disabled person’s abuse or neglect;
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For Public Health activities (tracking diseases or medical devices);
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For organ donations;
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For Health Oversight activities, such as fraud investigations;
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To Workers' Compensation, if you are injured at work;
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For certain judicial or administrative proceedings;
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To coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors;
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For government functions, such as national security and& intelligence;
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To a correctional institution, if you are an inmate;
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For research, following an appropriate review or waiver of authorization for subject recruitment application; or
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To avert serious threat to public health or safety authorization by an institutional review board to ensure protection of information.
We may also use your information without your permission to:
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Recommend treatment alternatives;
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Tell you about health benefits and/or services;
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Send or call you with appointment reminders;
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Ask you to make a charitable gift;
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List your name, location, and general condition in the patient directory
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List your religious affiliation in the patient directory provided to clergy
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Communicate with those involved in your care.
Except as otherwise permitted by law, all other uses and disclosures not described above will require your signed authorization. You may revoke any signed authorization you provide at any time by delivering a written statement directly to the Privacy Officer except to the extent that we have already taken action in reliance on your authorization.
Please know that federal and state law mandate special privacy protection for certain highly confidential information about you that includes, but is not limited to:
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Psychotherapy notes;
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Mental health and developmental disabilities services;
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Alcohol and drug-abuse prevention, treatment, and referral services;
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HIV/AIDS testing, diagnosis, or treatment;
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Venereal disease(s);
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Genetic testing; and
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Child/elder/disabled person’s abuse or neglect, and/or sexual assault.
In order for us to disclose your highly confidential information for a purpose other than those permitted by law, we must obtain your written authorization.
YOUR RIGHTS: Under HIPAA, you have the right to request in writing:
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Restrictions on how we use or disclose your medical information;
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Confidential communications to an alternate phone or address other than your home;
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Access to your medical information to review and obtain a copy, subject to federal and state laws (fees may apply);
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An amendment to your medical information if you feel you or your health care provider need to make additions or corrections;
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An accounting of disclosures of your medical information for purposes other than treatment, payment, health care operations or made pursuant to an authorization;
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A paper copy of this Notice, even if you have received it electronically; and
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A revocation of any specific authorization obtained in connection with your privacy, such as for marketing and research;
While we will consider all requests for privacy restrictions carefully, we are not required to agree to any requested restrictions.
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your medical information, to provide you with this written Notice of Privacy Rights and Practices, and to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect. We reserve the right to change this Notice and our Privacy Practices and make the new provisions effective for all information we maintain. Revised Notices will be posted in our facilities and office.
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Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS, (Romo Plastic Surgery), and its employees are committed to protecting patient privacy.
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Learn about Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS
Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS is one of the most respected facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons in the world.
He is also the Director of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at North Shore/LIJ Lenox Hill Hospital and at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in NYC.
NYC's Best Kept Secret
Romo Plastic Surgery provides a confidential, safe, and nurturing experience. Dr. Thomas Romo III produces such extraordinarily
natural results, that we’ve adopted the motto “We won’t tell if you don’t.” ™