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.
This notice applies to Wellness Therapy & Medical Care Center, Inc., its workforce, and health care professionals permitted to use our facilities or participate in care arrangements covered by this notice.
Our duties
We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of protected health information, provide this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, follow the notice currently in effect, and notify affected individuals following a breach of unsecured protected health information when required by law.
Uses and disclosures for treatment, payment, and operations
- Treatment: We may use and share information with physicians, pharmacies, laboratories, therapists, hospitals, and others involved in your care
- Payment: We may use and share information to bill and obtain payment from health plans or other responsible parties
- Health care operations: We may use and share information for quality assessment, staff training, licensing, credentialing, auditing, compliance, patient service, and business management
- Business associates: We may share information with vendors performing services for us when written safeguards are required
- Contact: We may contact you about appointments, test or referral follow-up, treatment alternatives, and health-related services
Other uses and disclosures allowed or required by law
- Public-health activities, disease reporting, product recalls, and preventing or controlling disease
- Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence as permitted or required
- Health oversight, licensing, audits, inspections, and investigations
- Judicial or administrative proceedings and law-enforcement purposes when legal requirements are met
- Workers' compensation and similar programs
- Coroners, medical examiners, funeral directors, and organ or tissue donation organizations
- Research approved under applicable privacy requirements
- Preventing or reducing a serious and imminent threat to health or safety
- Specialized government functions, including military, national-security, and correctional activities, when authorized
Uses requiring written authorization
Uses and disclosures not described in this notice generally require your written authorization. Most uses of psychotherapy notes, uses for marketing, and sales of protected health information require authorization unless an exception applies. You may revoke an authorization in writing, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.
Your privacy rights
- Request access to inspect or receive an electronic or paper copy of your medical and billing records, subject to limited legal exceptions
- Request a correction to information you believe is incorrect or incomplete; we may deny the request in some circumstances and will explain why
- Request confidential communications, such as contact at a specific telephone number or address
- Request restrictions on certain uses or disclosures; we are not always required to agree, except for certain disclosures to a health plan when you pay in full out of pocket and the law requires the restriction
- Request an accounting of certain disclosures made during the applicable period
- Receive a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically
- Choose someone with legal authority, such as a personal representative, to exercise rights on your behalf
- File a complaint without retaliation
Exercising your rights or filing a complaint
Contact our Privacy Officer using the information below. We may require a written request and identity verification. Reasonable cost-based fees may apply where permitted by law.
You may also complain to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, through hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Changes to this notice
We may change this notice and make the revised notice effective for information we already hold and information we receive in the future. The current notice will be available at our office and on this website.
Privacy Officer
Wellness Therapy & Medical Care Center, Inc., Attn: Privacy Officer, 8040 NW 155th St, Miami Lakes, FL 33016. Phone: (305) 827-0208. Email: wellnesstherapymedcenter@outlook.com.