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.
Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Hair Transplant Design keeps records of the care you receive here. Federal law (HIPAA) requires us to protect the privacy of your health information, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the notice currently in effect.
How We May Use and Share Your Health Information
We may use and share your health information without a separate authorization for these purposes:
- Treatment. To plan and provide your care, including sharing information among the members of our team who treat you.
- Payment. To bill and collect payment for your care, including from financing partners you choose to use.
- Health care operations. To run the clinic, improve quality and train our staff.
- Appointment reminders and treatment information. To contact you about appointments, aftercare and treatment options.
We may also share information when the law requires or allows it, for example for public health reporting, health oversight, legal proceedings, law enforcement requests, to prevent a serious threat to health or safety, for workers' compensation, or with a medical examiner.
Uses That Require Your Written Permission
We will not use or share your health information for the following without your signed authorization:
- Marketing.
- Sale of your information.
- Before-and-after photos and videos. Photos taken during your care are part of your record. We publish a patient's photos on this website or on social media only with that patient's written permission, and you can withdraw that permission for future use at any time by writing to us.
You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time. The revocation does not affect uses we have already made based on it.
Your Rights
- Get a copy of your records. Ask to see or get an electronic or paper copy of your health record. We will provide it, usually within 30 days, and may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
- Ask us to correct your record. If you think something is wrong or missing, ask us to amend it. We may say no, but we will tell you why in writing within 60 days.
- Request confidential communications. Ask us to contact you in a specific way, for example only by mobile phone, or to send mail to a different address. We will honor reasonable requests.
- Ask us to limit what we use or share. We are not required to agree, unless you pay for a service in full out of pocket and ask us not to share that information with your health plan for payment or operations. In that case we must agree.
- Get a list of those with whom we have shared your information. You can ask for an accounting of disclosures for the six years before your request, except disclosures for treatment, payment, operations and certain others.
- Get a copy of this notice. Ask for a paper copy at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
- Choose someone to act for you. If you have given someone medical power of attorney or someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights.
- File a complaint. If you feel your rights were violated, you can complain to us using the contact below, or to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201, 1-877-696-6775, or online at hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Our Responsibilities
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
- We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
- We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
- We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us we can in writing. If you tell us we can, you may change your mind at any time by letting us know in writing.
Changes to This Notice
We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available on request, in our clinic and on this website.
Contact and Complaints
Privacy questions, requests and complaints go to our Privacy Officer:
Hair Transplant Design
13021 W Linebaugh Ave, Unit 102, Tampa, FL 33626
813-773-8013 · [email protected]