HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

Treatment

We may use and disclose your PHI to provide you with medical treatment. For example, your physician may share your lab results and health history with a licensed pharmacy to fulfill your prescription, or transmit lab orders to our partner lab.

Payment

We may use and disclose your PHI to process payment for services. For example, we may include clinical information in billing records processed by our payment processor.

Healthcare Operations

We may use and disclose your PHI for healthcare operations including quality assessment, physician performance evaluation, compliance activities, clinical training, and program improvement.

Other Permitted or Required Uses and Disclosures

We may also use or disclose your PHI without your authorization for:

• Required by law: When required by federal, state, or local law
• Public health activities: Reporting of diseases, injuries, births, deaths, or abuse/neglect as required
• Health oversight: Audits, investigations, or licensing activities by health oversight agencies
• Judicial and administrative proceedings: In response to a court order, subpoena, or discovery request (with appropriate safeguards)
• Law enforcement: To identify suspects, report crimes, or respond to official requests
• Serious threats to health or safety: To prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to a person or the public
• Workers' compensation: As authorized by state workers' compensation laws
• Coroners, medical examiners, funeral directors: As necessary for legally authorized activities
• National security and intelligence: For authorized national security activities

Right to Inspect and Copy

You may request to inspect and receive a copy of your PHI that we maintain in a designated record set. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.

Right to Request Amendment

If you believe your PHI is incorrect or incomplete, you may request an amendment. We may deny the request in certain circumstances and will explain our reasoning in writing.

Right to an Accounting of Disclosures

You may request an accounting of disclosures of your PHI made for reasons other than treatment, payment, or healthcare operations for the six years prior to your request.

Right to Request Restrictions

You may request restrictions on uses or disclosures of your PHI. We are not required to agree except in one instance: if you request we not disclose PHI to a health plan for a service you paid for entirely out of pocket, we must honor that restriction.

Right to Request Confidential Communications

You may request we communicate with you in a specific way or at a specific location. We will accommodate reasonable requests.

Right to Receive Notice of Breach

You have the right to be notified if a breach of your unsecured PHI occurs.

Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice

You may request a paper copy of this notice at any time.