This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.
Please read it carefully.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Extract a paper or electronic copy of your medical record.

  If you think something in your medical record is incorrect (your paper or electronic health information), insist on fixing it right away.

   

• Request confidential communication.

• Request that you be put on a limited information diet.

• Get a list of people to whom we have passed on your information.

• Get and keep a copy of this privacy notice.

• Appoint a power of attorney for yourself.

• Complain if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.

  You can choose how we use and share your information by:

   

• Telling family and friends what you are going through.

• Providing disaster relief.

  — Including you in a hospital directory.

   

• Delivering mental health care.

• Advertising our services and selling your data.

• Raising funds.

  We may use or share your information:

   

• To treat you.

• To operate our organization.

• To bill for your services.

• For public health and safety efforts.

• For research purposes.

• To comply with the law.

• To take action in response to an organ and tissue request.

• Working with a medical examiner or funeral director.

• When we respond to workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests.

• In response to lawsuits, other legal proceedings.

Your Rights Explained

This section describes your health information rights and the obligations we have to help you exercise these rights.

Obtain a Copy of Your Medical Record

You have the right to be shown your medical record, or get a copy of it – either in electronic or on paper. Please inquire the procedure for the statement. We will give you a copy or summary of your health information, usually within 30 days. Some reasonable cost-based fee may apply.

Request Changes to Your Medical Record

You have the right to request that we correct your health information. Please ask me for the procedure of it. We can refuse your request, but we will give a written explanation within 60 days.

Request Confidential Communications

You can also ask us to contact you in a particular way (for example, home or office phone) or to send mail to a different address. It is your booking, we will do anything reasonable.

Ask Us to Restrict Information Sharing

You can ask to not use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or operational purposes. We can refuse to agree to your request but, if we do, we must honor this refusal (except in exceptions to which you do not have a right).

You can ask us not to share that information or service for payment or our operations with your health insurer if you pay out-of-pocket (or in other words, you have requested that we not bill the health insurer) in full for a healthcare item or service. We’ll go along, unless the law requires us to share that information.”

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You have the right to ask us for a list of all times over the past six years when we’ve shared your health information, who we shared it with, and why. This does not include treatment, payment and health care operation disclosures (such as requests you have made). We will not charge for any such request, unless you have already received an accounting of any disclosures within the preceding 12 month period, in which case we may charge a reasonable cost-based fee.

Request a Copy of This Notice of Privacy Practices

You have the right to a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically. We'll send you a hardcopy soon.

Designate a Proxy

If you have given someone medical power of attorney, or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information. Before we do anything, a source check on who gave them authority will take place.

File a Complaint

If you think your rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us by contacting us as shown on page 1. You can also complain to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights by by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting www. hhs. gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/. We will not take action against you for filing a complaint.

Your Choices

You have some choices in how we use information that you select to not share other health information about you. If you have a specific preference about how we share your information for the described purposes in such circumstances, please let us know and Limitations of Retention We will utilize not process.servicenow.com adhere to those specific instructions.

In those cases, you have a right and a choice to tell us:

• Exchange information with family, partners or other people who are participating in your care.

• Share with disaster relief in a crisis.

  Add your information to a directory at a hospital.

  If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and do what we consider is in your best interest. We will also disclose your information when required by law to respond to a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

  There are certain instances when we will never sell/give out your information without your written consent:

   

• For marketing purposes.

• To sell your information.

• For the vast majority of sharing for psychotherapy notes.

Fundraising

Contacting You for Fundraising We may contact you to invite you to participate in a choir fundraiser, but we will honor any request not to be contacted.

Our Uses and Disclosures

How do we use or share your health information? We typically use or share your health information in the following ways:

Treatment

We can use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you. For instance, a doctor treating you for an injury might discuss your general health with another doctor.

Organizational Operations

We may use and disclose your health information in order to run our practice, improve your care, and contact you when necessary. For example, we may use your health information to treat you and provide treatment and services.

Billing for Services

We can use and share your health information for purposes of billing your health plan or other entities in order to collect payment. For instance, we could tell your health insurance plan about you so it will pay for your services.

Other Use and Sharing of Health Information

There are other times we may be allowed or even required to share your information, usually for the greater good, like public health and research. We have to comply with certain legal requirements before we can disclose your information for these reasons. Details on this can be found here: www. hhs. gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index. html.

Public health and safety concerns

We may disclose health information about you for certain situations such as:

• Preventing disease.

• Assisting with product recalls.

• Reporting adverse reactions to drugs.

• Report suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence.

• Preventing the serious health/safety threat to anyone.

Research

We may use or share your information for health research.

Legal Compliance

We may disclose information about you if required to do so by state or federal law.

Attitudes Regarding Organ and Tissue Donation

We may disclose your health information to organ procurement organizations as necessary to facilitate an organ, eye, or tissue donation.

= Cooperation with Medical Examiners and Undertakers

In the event of your death, we will disclose health information to a coroner or medical examiner.

Responding to Workers Compensation, Police and Government Requests

HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION We may use or disclose your health information for the following purposes:

• In connection with workers’ compensation claims

• then they arrest you for that one contact, or to give it to a cop

• In order to satisfy any agencies responsible for monitoring health-funded activities authorized by law

  – Military operations (including police actions) and assistance to foreign countries for counterinsurgency

Responding to Legal Actions

We may disclose your health information in response to an administrative order, court order, or subpoena.

Our Responsibilities

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information. Should there be a breach that could possibly endanger your information, we will inform you immediately.

We are required to follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it. We will not use or disclose your information for purposes other than those described in this notice unless you have given us written authorization to do so. If you do approve, you may withdraw your consent by contacting us in writing and tell us that's what you want to do.

For more information, visit: [www. hhs. gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/noticepp. html](www. hhs. gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/noticepp. html).

Revision to the Terms of This Notice

We may change the terms of this notice at any time, and those changes will apply to all information we have about you. A revised copy of the notice will be available, upon request, in our office and on our website.