Your information. Your rights. Our responsibilities.

Your rights

You may ask to inspect or receive an electronic or paper copy of your health record; ask us to correct information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete; request confidential communications in a specific way or at a specific location; ask us to limit certain uses or disclosures; receive a list of certain disclosures; receive a paper copy of this notice; choose someone to act for you; and complain if you believe your privacy rights were violated. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Your choices

For certain information, you may tell us your preferences about sharing information with family, close friends, or others involved in your care, sharing in a disaster-relief situation, and contacting you for fundraising. Uses and disclosures for marketing, sale of your information, and most sharing of psychotherapy notes require written authorization unless an exception permitted by law applies. You may revoke an authorization in writing, except to the extent we have already acted on it.

How we may use and disclose information

We may use and share health information for treatment, payment, and health care operations. We may also share information when permitted or required by law, including for public health and safety activities, reports of suspected abuse or neglect, health oversight, workers' compensation, judicial or administrative proceedings, law enforcement, coroners or medical examiners, organ donation, certain government functions, and to reduce a serious and imminent threat to health or safety. We will follow any more protective applicable law.

Our responsibilities

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of protected health information, provide this notice, follow the notice currently in effect, and notify affected individuals following a breach of unsecured protected health information as required by law. We will not use or disclose information other than as described here unless you authorize it in writing.

Questions or complaints

Contact L. Bryant Counseling & Consulting, PLLC at 2444 Commerce Road, Suite 131, Jacksonville, NC 28546; (910) 518-8644; or info@lbryantcounselingandconsulting.com. You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.