HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

This notice describes how this facility may use and disclose your protected health information to carry out treatment, payment or healthcare operations and/or for other purposes that are permitted or required by Law. It also describes your rights to access and control your protected health information. “Protected Health information” is information about you, including demographic information, that may identify you that relates to your past, present, and/or future physical, mental health/condition and related healthcare services. We are required to abide by the terms of this “Notice of Privacy Practices”. We may change the terms of our notice, at any time. The new notice will be effective for all protected health information that is maintained at the time. Upon your request, this facility will provide you with any revised “Notice of Privacy Practices” by calling the practice and requesting that a revised copy be sent to you via mail/email or asking for one at the time of your next appointment.

  1. How we may use health data about you:
  2. Treatment – We may use or share your health data to give you medical treatment or other types of health Services.
  3. Payment- We may use or share your health date to bill you or a third party for payment for Services provided to you.
  4. Health Care Operations – We may use and share health data about you for our own operations such as quality control, Compliance monitoring, outcome evaluation, audit, etc.
  5. Disclosures where we do not have to give you a chance to agree or object:
  6. To you
  7. As required by federal, state, or Local Law
  8. if child abuse or neglect is suspected
  9. Public Health risks for public health activities to prevent and control of disease
  10. Lawsuits and disputes in response to a court administrative order
  11. Law enforcement to help Law enforcement officials respond to
  12. criminal activities
  13. Coroners, medical examiners, funeral directors
  14. Oran or tissue donation facilities if you are an organ donor
  15. To avert a threat to individual, public health and/or safety
  16. Disclosures where We mucus give you a chance to agree or object:
  17. Patient directories-You can decide what health data, if any, you want to be listed in patient directories.
  18. Persons involved in your care or payment for care – We may share your health data with a family member, a close friend or other person that you named as being involved with your health care.
  19. Other uses of health date: Other uses not covered by this notice or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written consent.
  20. You have these rights for the health data we keep about you:
  21. Right to inspect your health record and to receive a copy of your health records upon request.
  22. Right to amend information in your health records you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
  23. Right to know to whom we disclosed your health information.
  24. Right to ask for limits on the health information data we give out about you.
  25. Right to receive Communication from us about your health information on alternate ways.
  26. Right to a paper copy or the complete Notice of Privacy Practices.

How We Protect Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of any personal information or data stored on our Site.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.