This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed, and how you can gain access to this information. Please review it carefully.
1. Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Medical Arts Groves Inc is fully committed to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and its implementing regulations. We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your Protected Health Information ("PHI") and to provide you with this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices.
2. Uses & Disclosures of PHI
We may use and disclose your PHI for treatment, payment and healthcare operations, including coordination of surgical and recovery care, billing, and quality assessment. Any other use requires your written authorisation, which you may revoke in writing at any time.
3. Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Inspect and obtain copies of your medical and billing records.
- Request amendments to your medical records.
- Request an accounting of certain disclosures of your PHI.
- Request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures.
- Request confidential communications by alternative means or locations.
- Receive a paper copy of this Notice upon request.
- Be notified in the event of a breach of unsecured PHI.
4. Safeguards
We use administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect your PHI, including encrypted data systems, secure workstations, locked file storage, and staff training in privacy practices.
5. Marketing & Sale of Information
We will never sell your PHI. Marketing communications involving PHI will only be sent with your written authorisation.
6. Patient Imagery
Before-and-after photography is taken solely with your written, revocable consent. You may decline photography or limit how images are used (internal records, in-office display, marketing).
7. Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with our Privacy Officer at info@medicalartsgrove.online or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.
8. Effective Date & Changes
This Notice is effective as of the date listed above. We reserve the right to revise this Notice and apply changes to PHI we already maintain. Revised notices will be available at our office and posted on this page.
Questions about this policy? Contact Medical Arts Groves Inc at info@medicalartsgrove.online or 844.943.6281.