Respect for your basic rights as a patient is important to CIS.
As a CIS patient, you have the right to:

•   Considerate, respectful care with recognition of your personal dignity
•   Participate in your care by asking questions and gaining information regarding
          your problems, diagnoses, condition, treatment, and alternatives to care
•   Information about your health condition, diagnostic testing planned and
          treatment options
•   Make decisions regarding your care
•   Seek a second opinion
•   Privacy and confidentiality of your protected health information (except
          under specialcircumstances allowed by law, such as emergencies)
•   Respectfully communicate concerns or complaints regarding your care
•   Research treatment information for which you may qualify

As a CIS patient you have the responsibility to:

•    Provide, to the best of your knowledge, accurate and complete information
          about present problems or complaints, past illnesses, treatments and/or
          surgeries, hospitalizations, medication and other matters relating to your
          health to facilitate proper evaluation and treatment
•    Ask questions to gain an understanding of your condition or problem
•    Communicate any problems or concerns to your physician/provider
•    Follow the recommendations or treatment plan made by your physician/provider
          and avoid unhealthy practices
•    Keep all appointments. When unable to do so, call to notify us in order to allow
          another patient to be seen. Please reschedule all missed appointments as
          soon as possible.
•    Show respect and be considerate of the rights of other patients and their family
          members
•    Show respect to the health care staff and physicians/providers
•    Assure that your financial obligations of your healthcare are paid as promptly as
          possible