Notice of Privacy Practices

For treatment, meaning to provide, coordinate and manage your care, including sharing information with laboratories, pathology services and other clinicians involved in your care, and with a clinician you have asked us to refer you to.

For payment, meaning to bill and obtain payment for the services we provide, including from your health plan, such as Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida or Medicare, and to confirm your coverage before a visit.

For health care operations, meaning to run the practice, including quality assessment, staff training and administration.

• Treatment, care coordination and referral
• Billing and payment, including claims to your health plan
• Quality assessment, staff training and administration
• Appointment reminders, test result notifications and care updates, by your chosen contact method
• Our secure patient portal, where you can view appointments, notes and treatment plans
• As required by law, including public health and other reporting obligations
• To avert a serious and imminent threat to health or safety

Marketing communications, any public or promotional use of your photographs, including before and after images, and any sale of protected health information all require your separate written authorization.

That authorization is optional, is never a condition of receiving treatment, and can be revoked in writing at any time. Revoking it does not affect disclosures already made in reliance on it.

You have the right to inspect and obtain a copy of your health record, including an electronic copy; to request an amendment to it; to request an accounting of certain disclosures; to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures; to request confidential communications by a particular method or at a particular address; and to receive a paper copy of this notice.

If you pay for a service in full out of pocket, you may ask us not to share information about that service with your health plan. You also have the right to be notified in the event of a breach affecting your unsecured protected health information.

Contact our office using the details below. We will respond within the time frames required by law.

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may complain to the practice and to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. We will not retaliate against you for making a complaint, and making one will not affect your care.

We may change this notice and make the revised notice effective for information we already hold as well as for information we receive in future. The current notice is always posted on this page, and a copy is available at our office.