HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

Reign-Bow Treatment Center is committed to protecting the privacy of your protected health information ("PHI"). We are required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and its implementing regulations to maintain the privacy of your PHI, to provide you with this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect.

We may use and disclose your PHI for treatment, payment, and health care operations without your written authorization. Examples include coordinating care with other providers involved in your treatment, billing your insurance company, conducting quality assessment activities, training staff, and other routine business operations.

Most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, uses and disclosures for marketing purposes, and disclosures that constitute a sale of PHI require your written authorization. You may revoke an authorization at any time, in writing, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.

We may use or disclose your PHI without your authorization for public health activities; reporting victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; health oversight activities; judicial and administrative proceedings; law enforcement purposes; coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors; organ, eye, or tissue donation; research with appropriate approvals; serious threats to health or safety; specialized government functions, including military and veterans activities; workers' compensation; and as otherwise required by law.

• Request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your PHI.
• Request that we communicate with you about medical matters in a certain way or at a certain location.
• Inspect and obtain a copy of your PHI maintained in a designated record set.
• Request an amendment to your PHI if you believe it is incorrect or incomplete.
• Receive an accounting of certain disclosures of your PHI.
• Receive a paper copy of this Notice upon request, even if you have agreed to receive it electronically.
• Be notified if there is a breach of unsecured PHI concerning you.
• File a complaint without fear of retaliation.

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI; notify you promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information; follow the duties and privacy practices described in this Notice and give you a copy of it; and not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us, in writing, that we may.

We reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice at any time and to make the new Notice provisions effective for all PHI we maintain. A current copy of this Notice will be posted at our office and on our website.

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with Reign-Bow Treatment Center or with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.