Your Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.
Empower Health Services, LLC, is committed to protecting the privacy of your health information. Empower Health Services, LLC has
policies and safeguards in place to protect your information. We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your
protected health information and to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices. 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.
How is your health information used?
The confidential health information that we collect as we provide Health and Wellness or Immunization Services is called “Protected Health
Information” or “PHI”. We may use or disclose your PHI for treatment, payment or health care operations. As an example, we may provide
you with your health screening results, or use your PHI to collect payment or verify your insurance. In addition, we would use your PHI for
our health care operations and contact you when necessary; to evaluate and improve the quality or our services, to evaluate provider or
employee performance or to store your records. We routinely use your health information for these purposes without any special
permission. We can only share your PHI with your approval when you sign a valid authorization. You may cancel this authorization at any
time. We do NOT use or disclose your PHI for marketing purposes and we do NOT sell PHI.
How else can we use or share your health information?
We can only share information about you without your authorization if state or federal laws require it or in response to a court or
administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
Your Rights:
Except in the situations noted above, we will not use or disclose your PHI without your written authorization. You do not have to sign
the authorization and you may revoke your authorization at any time unless we have already acted in reliance upon it. In addition,
you have the following rights regarding the use and disclosure of your PHI:
To contact us in the future.
If you wish to obtain or see a copy of your PHI, see an accounting of any disclosures we have made or ask to amend your PHI, or
revoke your authorization, please contact Empower Health Services, LLC at 18663676974 for assistance on how to make the
request.
Additional information or if you believe your privacy has not been protected.
If you believe that your privacy has not been protected, you believe there has been a breach of the security of your PHI, or you wish to
have additional information, please contact Empower Health Services, LLC at 18663676974. You can file a complaint with the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington,
D.C. 20201, or visiting www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint. The
privacy of your PHI is important to us. We welcome your questions and comments for our continuous improvement.
Changes to the Terms of this Notice
Empower Health Services, LLC, reserves the right to change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all PHI we may have
about you. The new notice will be for download here.
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