Notice of privacy practices

Our commitment

This practice is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect.

How your information may be used and disclosed

Without your written authorisation, your information may be used or disclosed for:

• Treatment. Coordinating your care, including sending prescriptions to your pharmacy and communicating with other providers involved in your treatment.
• Payment. Verifying benefits, obtaining authorisation, and billing your insurer for services provided.
• Health care operations. Quality review, licensing, and the administration of the practice.
• As required by law. Including public health reporting, suspected abuse or neglect, court orders, and situations involving a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of you or another person.

Uses that always require your authorisation

Psychotherapy notes, marketing, and any sale of your information require your written authorisation. You may revoke that authorisation in writing at any time, except where the practice has already acted in reliance on it.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• Inspect and obtain a copy of your records.
• Request a correction to information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Request confidential communication by a particular method or at a particular address.
• Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures.
• Receive an accounting of certain disclosures.
• Be notified if a breach affects your unsecured protected health information.
• Obtain a paper copy of this notice on request.

Telehealth

Appointments are conducted over a HIPAA-compliant video platform. Sessions are not recorded. You are responsible for the privacy of the space you join from; please use somewhere you can speak without being overheard.

Complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may complain to the practice using the details on the Contact page, or to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.

Review status

This document is a working draft prepared with the website. It must be reviewed and approved by the practice’s attorney or compliance advisor, and given an effective date, before the site goes live.