Legal / HIPAA
Notice of
Privacy Practices
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.
How your information may be used
Permitted uses and disclosures.
- Treatment
- To provide, coordinate, and manage your medical and behavioral health care, including sharing information with other clinicians involved in your care.
- Payment
- To bill and obtain payment from you, your insurance plan, or another responsible party for services rendered.
- Health care operations
- To support quality review, clinician training, compliance activities, and routine administration of the practice.
- As required by law
- To comply with federal, state, or local law, including public health reporting, health oversight, and judicial or law enforcement requests.
Your rights
Rights you hold over your record.
- Access and copies
- You may inspect and request a copy of your medical record, generally within 15 business days of a written request.
- Amendment
- You may request an amendment to information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Accounting of disclosures
- You may request a list of certain disclosures of your protected health information.
- Restrictions
- You may request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures, including disclosures to a health plan for services paid in full out of pocket.
- Confidential communications
- You may request that we contact you at a specific phone number or address.
- Complaints
- You may file a complaint with the practice or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.
Our responsibilities
What we commit to.
Nexus Mind & Medical Center, PLLC is required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information, to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to notify you promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
Most uses and disclosures for marketing purposes, and any sale of protected health information, require your written authorization. Psychotherapy notes, where they exist, receive heightened protection. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time.
Clinical documentation is maintained in a HIPAA-compliant electronic health record, and patients communicate with the clinical team through a secure patient portal rather than through standard email or website forms.
Contact & effective date
Notice
To exercise any right described above, or to ask a question about this notice, contact the Privacy Officer at Nexus Mind & Medical Center, PLLC, 3925 S Preston Road, Suite 106, Celina, Texas 75009, [Pending Office Phone Number], [Pending Official Contact Email]. We reserve the right to change this notice, and revised notices will apply to all information we maintain.