Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy and Notice of Privacy Practices

Effective Date: 1/1/2025

At SleepScriptMD, we value your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy, especially your health information. This notice explains how we may use and disclose your Protected Health Information (PHI), your rights regarding that information, and our legal duties to safeguard it.

How We Use and Disclose Your Health Information

We may use or share your PHI in the following ways:

For Treatment: We share your health information with doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals involved in your care.
For Operations: Your information may be used for administrative, quality improvement, and care coordination purposes within our organization.
For Billing: We may disclose your information to health insurers or other entities for payment collection.

Other permitted uses and disclosures include:

Public health activities (e.g., disease prevention, product recalls)
Compliance with legal requirements
Health research (with safeguards)
Law enforcement or national security needs
Organ and tissue donation
Medical examiner and funeral director coordination
Workers’ compensation or government function requests
In response to legal proceedings (e.g., subpoenas, court orders)

We will not use or disclose your information for marketing, the sale of data, or release of psychotherapy notes without your explicit written permission.

Your Rights Regarding PHI

You have the following rights:

Access: Request to view or get a copy of your health records, electronically or on paper, usually within 30 days.
Amendment: Request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete health records.
Confidential Communications: Request communications in a specific way (e.g., only via mail, not phone).
Restrictions: Request we limit the use or sharing of your information. We will honor reasonable requests, especially if services are paid out-of-pocket in full.
Accounting of Disclosures: Request a list of who we shared your information with in the past six years, excluding routine operations.
Paper Copy of this Notice: You may request a printed copy at any time.
Personal Representative: Someone with medical power of attorney or legal guardianship may act on your behalf.
Complaint: File a complaint if you believe your rights have been violated, without fear of retaliation.

Our Legal Duties

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your Protected Health Information.
We will notify you promptly in case of any breach that may compromise your data.
We must comply with the practices outlined in this notice unless you authorize changes in writing.
You may revoke your written authorization at any time.
We reserve the right to update this policy, and any changes will apply to all the information we maintain. Updated notices will be posted on our website and available in our office.