Notice of Privacy Practices
Effective Date: May 20, 2024
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. Central Texas Wound Healing Associates is committed to protecting the privacy of your health information in accordance with HIPAA standards.
Uses and Disclosures of Health Information
Your Health Information Rights
Our Duties & Contact Info
Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations
We use your PHI to provide medical treatment or services. We may disclose health information about you to doctors, nurses, technicians, or other personnel involved in taking care of you. We may also use and disclose PHI so that the treatment and services you receive may be billed and payment may be collected. Furthermore, we may use and disclose PHI for health care operations, such as quality assessment and improvement activities.
Other Permitted Uses and Disclosures
- Public Health: Reporting disease outbreaks or vital statistics.
- Legal Proceedings: In response to a court or administrative order.
- Law Enforcement: To identity or locate a suspect, fugitive, or missing person.
- Coroners and Medical Examiners: To identify a deceased person or determine cause of death.
- Organ Donation: Assisting with organ, eye, or tissue donation.
- Research: Under specific conditions where privacy is protected.
- Serious Threats: To prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the public.
- Workers' Compensation: As authorized by state workers' compensation laws.
- Right to Access: You have the right to inspect and copy your record.
- Right to Amend: You may request a correction if information is incorrect or incomplete.
- Right to Accounting: You can request a list of certain disclosures we have made.
- Right to Restrictions: You may request a limit on the information we use for treatment or payment.
- Confidential Communications: Request that we communicate with you in a specific way.
- Breach Notification: You have the right to be notified following a breach of unsecured PHI.
- Paper Copy: You may request a paper copy of this notice at any time.
Written Authorizations
The following uses and disclosures will be made only with your written authorization: most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, uses and disclosures of PHI for marketing purposes, and disclosures that constitute a sale of PHI. You may revoke such an authorization at any time in writing.
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of protected health information, provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and follow the terms of the notice currently in effect. We reserve the right to change the terms of this notice and will notify you of any changes.
Privacy Questions & Complaints
Central Texas Wound Healing Associates
540 Madison Oak Drive, Suite 130
San Antonio, TX 78258
Phone: 210-236-1886 | Fax: (210) 783-8875
Email: contact@ctxwoundhealing.com
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with our office or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.
Your Rights Regarding Your Health Information
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you have several important rights regarding your Protected Health Information (PHI). We are committed to honoring these rights to ensure your privacy and trust.
Right to Access
Inspect and Copy PHI
Right to Amendment
Request Corrections
Right to Restriction
You have the right to inspect and receive a copy of your medical and billing records. We will provide this information within 30 days of your written request.
If you feel that the medical information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend it for as long as we maintain the record.
Limit Uses or Disclosures
You can request that we limit how we use or share your health information for treatment, payment, or operations. We will consider all requests carefully.
Confidential Comms
Alternative Contact Methods
Accounting of Disclosures
List of PHI Sharing
Breach Notification
Right to be Notified
You have the right to request that we communicate with you about medical matters in a certain way or at a specific location, such as only by mail or at work.
You can request a list of times we have shared your health information for up to six years prior to the date of your request, including who we shared it with and why.
You have the right to be notified in the event that we (or one of our Business Associates) discover a breach of your unsecured protected health information.
Our Duties Regarding Your Health Information
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. We are committed to following the terms of the notice currently in effect and notifying you following a breach of unsecured PHI. Central Texas Wound Healing Associates reserves the right to change the terms of this notice, and the new notice will be effective for all PHI we maintain.
Privacy Questions or Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with our Privacy Officer or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. All complaints must be submitted in writing. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.
Central Texas Wound Healing Associates
540 Madison Oak Drive, Suite 130
San Antonio, TX 78258
Phone: 210-236-1886
Fax: 210-783-8875
Email: contact@ctxwoundhealing.com