HIPAA Privacy Policy

Introduction

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

Our chiropractic clinic is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal health information. We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information and to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices.

Uses and Disclosures of Health Information

We use and disclose health information about you for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations. For example:

• Treatment: We may use or disclose your health information to a physician or other healthcare provider providing treatment to you.
• Payment: We may use and disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you.
• Healthcare Operations: We may use and disclose your health information in connection with our healthcare operations.
• Appointment Reminders: We may use and disclose your health information to contact you as a reminder that you have an appointment.
• Treatment Alternatives: We may use and disclose your health information to tell you about or recommend possible treatment options or alternatives.
• Health-Related Benefits and Services: We may use and disclose your health information to tell you about health-related benefits or services that may be of interest to you.

Your Health Information Rights

You have the following rights regarding your health information:

• Right to Inspect and Copy: You have the right to inspect and copy your health information.
• Right to Amend: You have the right to amend your health information if you feel it is incorrect or incomplete.
• Right to an Accounting of Disclosures: You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures we have made of your health information.
• Right to Request Restrictions: You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information.
• Right to Request Confidential Communications: You have the right to request that we communicate with you about health matters in a certain way or at a certain location.
• Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice: You have the right to a paper copy of this notice.

Other Uses and Disclosures

We may use or disclose your health information without your authorization for several other reasons. Subject to certain requirements, we may use or disclose your health information without your authorization for public health purposes, auditing purposes, research studies, and emergencies. We may also disclose your health information without your authorization when required by law.

For any other purposes not described in this notice, we will ask for your written authorization before using or disclosing your health information. If you choose to sign an authorization to disclose your health information, you can later revoke that authorization to stop any future uses and disclosures.

Our Responsibilities

We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information and to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices. We are required to abide by the terms of this notice currently in effect. We reserve the right to change the terms of this notice and to make new notice provisions effective for all protected health information that we maintain. If we change our practices, we will update this notice and make it available to you.

Complaints

If you are concerned that we have violated your privacy rights, or you disagree with a decision we made about access to your health information, you may contact the person listed below. You may also send a written complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The person listed below can provide you with the appropriate address upon request. Under no circumstances will you be retaliated against for filing a complaint.