Privacy & HIPAA notice
How we handle information you give us through this website, and your rights over your health information.
The text below is a structural outline only. A HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices is a regulated document with specific required content, and it must be issued by the practice and reviewed by its counsel or compliance officer. Replace this page with the practice’s own Notice before the site goes live. Do not publish this outline as though it were the real notice.
Information this website collects
When you submit the contact or appointment request form, we collect the name, phone number, email address and any details you choose to include. We use that solely to respond to you and to schedule care.
Please do not send urgent or sensitive clinical details through the website. For anything urgent, call (713) 666-0287. For an emergency, call 911.
Your rights under HIPAA
The practice’s Notice of Privacy Practices describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed, and how you can get access to it. It covers, at minimum:
- Uses and disclosures for treatment, payment and health care operations
- Uses and disclosures that require your authorization
- Your right to inspect, copy and amend your record
- Your right to an accounting of disclosures
- Your right to request restrictions and confidential communications
- How to file a complaint with the practice or with the Secretary of HHS
- The practice’s privacy contact and the notice’s effective date
Analytics and cookies
Describe here any analytics or advertising technology in use. Note that tracking technologies on a health care site can transmit information that is treated as protected health information, so confirm what is deployed before publishing this section.
Contact
Questions about privacy can be directed to the practice at (713) 666-0287, or through our contact page.