Notice of Privacy Practices

This notice applies to Integrated Functional Health, 2209 Falcon Ave, Bettendorf, IA 52722, and to the practitioners and staff who provide care here, including therapy and other clinical services.

Protected health information means information that identifies you and relates to your health, your care, or payment for your care. We are required by law to keep it private, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the notice currently in effect.

Information you send through our website that is not part of your care is handled under our Privacy Policy.

For treatment. To provide and coordinate your care. For example, a practitioner here may discuss your care with another practitioner treating you, or send information to a provider you have been referred to.

For payment. To bill and collect payment from you, or from a health plan where insurance is used. For example, we may give a health plan information about a session so it can be paid for.

For health care operations. To run the practice well and keep quality high. For example, reviewing our own work, training, and arranging services.

To people helping us. Companies that handle information on our behalf, such as our scheduling and client management platform and our record systems, may see it only to do that work. Each of them signs a written agreement requiring them to protect it.

Appointment reminders and information about care. To remind you of an appointment, or to tell you about treatment options and health related services that may interest you.

Where the law requires or allows it. Including reporting suspected abuse or neglect of a child or a dependent adult, responding to a court order or a lawful request from a public health or oversight authority, work with a medical examiner or funeral director, and specialised government functions.

To prevent a serious threat. If there is a serious and immediate threat to your health or safety, or to someone else's, we may share what is needed to help prevent harm.

Other uses and disclosures need your written authorization. That always includes:

• Most psychotherapy notes
• Marketing that we are paid by somebody else to send you
• Any sale of your information, which we do not do
• Sharing with your family, an employer, a school or anyone else you name

You may take back an authorization at any time, in writing. That stops future sharing, and it cannot undo sharing that has already happened.

• See and get a copy. You may look at your record and ask for a copy, on paper or electronically. We may charge a reasonable cost based fee for copying.
• Ask us to correct it. If you believe something is wrong or incomplete, ask us in writing to change it. If we say no, we will explain why in writing and you may file a statement of disagreement.
• Get a list of disclosures. You may ask for a list of certain times we shared your information outside treatment, payment and operations.
• Ask us to limit what we share. You may ask us to restrict a use or disclosure. We do not have to agree, except that we must agree not to tell a health plan about care you paid for in full yourself.
• Choose how we reach you. You may ask us to contact you at a particular number or address, or to leave no message. We will accommodate reasonable requests.
• Get a paper copy of this notice, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
• Be told about a breach of your unsecured protected health information.
• Choose someone to act for you. A person with legal authority to make health decisions for you may exercise these rights on your behalf.

To use any of these rights, call (563) 484-0550 or write to us at the address above.

We are required by law to protect the privacy of your protected health information, to give you this notice, and to follow its terms. We must tell you if a breach affects the privacy or security of your information.

We may change this notice, and a change applies to information we already hold as well as to information we receive in future. The current notice is always posted on this page and at our clinic, with the date it took effect.

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, please tell us first, by calling (563) 484-0550 or writing to Integrated Functional Health, 2209 Falcon Ave, Bettendorf, IA 52722. We want the chance to put it right.

You may also complain to the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201, by calling 1-877-696-6775, or at hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints.

You will never be penalised or treated differently for making a complaint.

For any question about this notice, or to ask for a paper copy, contact us:

• Call (563) 484-0550
• Email info@myifh.com
• Write to Integrated Functional Health, 2209 Falcon Ave, Bettendorf, IA 52722