InMind Health Notice of Privacy Practices- HIPAA Compliance

Commitment to Privacy

At InMind health, we understand that your health information is private and personal. In our best effort to provide quality care, and to comply with applicable laws and other legal requirements, we are required to keep a record of the services you receive from providers in our practice. Your record consists of personal information about you and your health. Protected health information (PHI) is information about you and the care you receive, to identify you as it relates to your past, present, or future health and related health services.

This notice of privacy describes how we may use and disclose your PHI to carry out our treatment, payment collection, healthcare operations, or other purposes permitted or required by law. This notice also describes your rights to access and control your protected health information.
 
We will always be 100% committed to maintaining your confidentiality in the records we keep and the conversation we have. We will only release your healthcare information in accordance with state or federal law and the ethical standards of the mental health professions in which are licensed.

Uses and Disclosures of Your Information

Treatment:

Your PHI may be used and disclosed by those involved in your care with the purpose of providing, coordinating, or managing your healthcare treatment or related services, such as, care specialists, clinical supervisors, and other treatment team members including administrative staff and contracted entities. We may also disclose PHI, to any other consultant, but only with your authorization.

Payment:

Your PHI will be used as needed to obtain payment for your healthcare services.

Healthcare operations: We may need to use information about you to review or support our treatment procedures and business activities. For example, we may share your PMI with third-party billing companies if we have a contract in place with the business which will include policies for safeguarding the privacy of our patient’s PHI.

Emergencies:

In the case of emergency situations, we may use or disclose your PHI. Your healthcare provider or another healthcare provider in our organization, including administrative staff, are required to provide information in an emergency for your health and safety or the health and safety of others, even if we are unable to obtain your consent.

Others Involved in Your Healthcare: Unless you object, we may disclose your PHI to family members, relatives, close friends, or any other person you identify as a person who is involved in your healthcare. If you are unable to agree or object to such a disclosure, we may disclose such information when necessary if we determine it is in your best interest based on our professional judgment for the benefit of your health and safety. We may use or disclose your PHI to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative, or any other person who is responsible for your care, regarding concerns over your general condition, or assisting in investigating your death. We may disclose your PHI to an authorized public or private entity to assist in disaster relief efforts, and to coordinate uses and disclosures to family or other individuals involved in your healthcare.

Other uses:

The following is a list of categories of uses and disclosures permitted by HIPAA which may occur without your authorization. Applicable law and ethical standards permit us to disclose information about you without your authorization in a limited number of situations, including the following:

• Required by law: We may use or disclose your PHI to the extent required by law.
• Judicial/administrative proceedings: We may disclose your PHI if we receive a subpoena, court order, administrative order, or similar legal process.
• Public health: We may disclose your PHI for public health activities and purposes to a public health authority who is permitted by law to collect or receive this information. This disclosure will be made with the purpose of controlling injury, disease, or disability.
• Child or vulnerable adult abuse or neglect: We must disclose your PHI to a local, state, or federal agency that is authorized to receive reports of suspected abuse, or neglect.
• Deceased patient: We may disclose PHI regarding deceased patients as mandated by applicable laws, or to a family member or friend that was involved in your care, or made payments for your care prior to death based on your consent. A release of information may be limited to an executor or administrator of a deceased person’s estate, or the person identified as its next of kin. PHI of persons that have been deceased for more than 50 years is no longer protected under HIPAA guidelines.
• Medical emergencies: We may disclose your PHI in medical emergency situations to other medical professionals only to prevent serious harm. We will do our best to provide you with notice as soon as reasonably possible after your emergency.
• Health oversight: If required, we may disclose PHI to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These can include audits, investigations, inspections, and other applicable activities.
• Family involvement and care: We may disclose your PHI to close family members, or friends directly involved in your treatment, or other persons you have specified through consent, or as necessary to prevent serious harm.
• Food and drug administration: We may disclose your PHI to a person or company required by the FDA to report adverse events, product defects/problems, biologic product deviations, track products, product recalls, to make repairs or replacements, or to conduct post marketing surveillance as required.
• Law-enforcement: We may disclose your PHI to law-enforcement if applicable legal requirements are met.
• Public safety: We may disclose your PHI if necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person, or to the public.
• Worker’s Compensation: We may use or disclosure your PHI to comply with Worker’s Compensation laws, and other similar legally established programs.
• Criminal activity: We may disclose your PHI if we believe that use or disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious or imminent threat to the health or safety of a person, or the public, consistent with applicable laws.
• Verbal permission: We may use or disclose your PHI to family members and those directly involved in your care and treatment with your verbal permission.
• With your authorization: Uses and disclosures not specifically permitted by applicable law will be made only with your written authorization. Authorization can be revoked at any time in writing, except to the extent we have already made a use or disclosure based upon your previous authorization. The following uses and disclosures will be made only with your written authorization: Most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes (which are separated from your medical record). Most uses and disclosures of PHI for marketing purposes, disclosures that constitute a sale of PHI, and other uses and disclosures not described in the above notice of privacy practices.