PRIVACY POLICY
Notice of Privacy Practices at Misty Roger's Rooted Wellness
Please read our Notice of Privacy Practices:
Misty Rogers L.Ac., practice Rooted Wellness Acupuncture Clinic, may use and disclose Protected Health Information (PHI) about you to carry out Treatment, Payment and Healthcare Operations (TPO).
As part of your healthcare, this organization creates and maintains health records describing your health history, symptoms, examinations, diagnoses, treatment, and any plans for future care or treatment. This information serves as:
Basis for planning your care and treatment
A means of communication among the many health professionals who contribute to your care.
A source of information for applying your diagnosis and treatment information to your bill.
A means by which a third party payer can verify that services billed were actually provided.
A tool for routine healthcare operations such as assessing quality and reviewing the competence of healthcare professionals.
We will not release this information to anyone else unless we receive a legal subpoena or "Authorization to Release Information" signed by you. This is the basic framework, but there are exceptions in which your PHI may be released without your authorization.
Disclosures Without Your Authorization:
Rooted Wellness Acupuncture may use or disclose your protected health information in some cases without your authorization. The following list describes the ways this may happen. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed. But we provide a brief description in certain cases.
As required by law
For Public Health Activities: to prevent or control disease, injury, or disability; to report child abuse or neglect, domestic violence, elder abuse; or as otherwise authorized by law; to report reactions to medicine or problems with products; to notify a person exposed to a contagious disease.
To prevent a serious threat to health or safety.
Anaya Acupuncture/ Venus Returns Staff may review your records for research purposes and preparation. All patients personal identifying information is explicitly removed for ensured anonymity in the case of research, and research publishing. The purpose of the research is to further Acupuncture & Herbology as an effective healing modality for the nation.
To your employer for evaluation of work related illness or injury, or for medical surveillance purposes.
For Lawsuits and Administrative Proceedings: To respond to court or administrative order; to respond to a subpoena or lawful request.
For law enforcement purposes: To respond to a warrant, identify suspects, or to report crime on Anaya Acupuncture property.
To report suspected abuse and neglect of the elderly, disabled, or nursing home patients to appropriate government agencies.
To comply with laws relating to Workers' Compensation or other similar programs.
To correctional institution or law enforcement, if you are an inmate of a correctional institution or in law enforcement custody, to provide you with health care; to protect the health and safety of yourself or others; for health and safety of correctional institution.
To Coroners and Medical Examiners: To identify, determine cause of death or perform other duties.
To Health Oversight Agencies for activities such as audits or inspections to oversee the health care system or government programs
To coordinate care Rooted Wellness Acupuncture Staff may:
Contact your primary physician, specialist physician, or therapist to provide continuity of care.
Call your home, or other designated location, and leave a message on voice mail or in person in reference to any items that assist the practice in carrying out TPO, such as appointment reminders, insurance items, and any call pertaining to your clinical care, including laboratory results among others.
Mail to your home, or other designated location, any items that assist the practice in carrying out TPO, such as appointment reminder cards and patient statements.
E-mail your appointment reminder cards and patient statements.
Health-Related Benefits and Services and Treatment Alternatives: sending information about treatment alternatives, updates, or other heath-related benefits and services that may interest you.
Fund-raising Activities: contacting you about Anaya Acupuncture/ Venus Returns fund-raising efforts. Any materials received will contain information on how to remove yourself from the fund-raising list.
Staff may review your records for research purposes and preparation. All patients personal identifying information is explicitly removed for ensured anonymity in the case of research, and research publishing. The purpose of the research is to further Acupuncture & Herbology as an effective healing modality for the nation.
Regarding medical information we maintain about you, you have the right to:
Request restrictions on uses and disclosures of your record for treatment, payment or health care operations. All requests must be made in writing. The law does not require us to agree to restriction requests. For emergency treatment, we may use or disclose restricted information. The right to request restrictions does not apply to uses and disclosures required by law.
Request confidential communications of protected health information in a certain way or at a certain place. All requests must be made in writing. If we accept your request, we will require you to provide information about payment handling, alternate address, and contact method.
Request to not be included in research data and publishing.
Inspect and copy protected health information that may be used to make decisions about you. This does not include psychotherapy notes, clinical laboratory data or information compiled in anticipation of or for use in a civil, criminal or administrative action or proceeding. This right is suspended temporarily until study completion for information created or obtained during research. The law permits us to charge a fee for copying costs.
Request us to amend information that may be used to make decisions about you. We are not required to agree to your request. We may deny your request if: (1) Anaya Acupuncture/ Venus Returns did not create the information, unless the person or entity that created the information is no longer available to make the amendment; (2) the information is not part of the information kept by or for Anaya Acupuncture/ Venus Returns to make decisions about you; (3) the information is not part of the information that you are allowed to inspect or copy; or (4) the information is complete and accurate. You must request an amendment in writing and supply a reason to support your request.
Receive an accounting of certain disclosures of your protected health information. The accounting right does not apply to disclosures that you have authorized or to disclosures for treatment, payment, and health care operations.
Obtain a paper copy of this Notice upon request.
You may revoke consent in writing except to the extent that the practice has already made disclosure in reliance upon your prior consent.
Authorization to Release Information:
During an "Authorization to Release Information" assignment a photocopy of your records or specific portion as you describe will be given, and this will serve as valid as the original.
Changes to this Notice:
We reserve the right to change this Notice. We reserve the right to make the revised or changed Notice effective for medical information we already have about you as well as for any information we receive in the future. We will post an updated copy of the current Privacy Practices Notice on this website.
Health Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA):
Rooted Wellness Acupuncture are committed to your medical privacy and the advancement of acupuncture & herbology world wide as a treatment modality of healing. Learn more about your rights to privacy through the Health Information Portability & Accountability Act (1996)