Legal

HIPAA notice of privacy practices

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed, and how you can get access to that information. Please review it carefully.

Effective date: May 2026

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.

Our duties

Lebarty Medical PLLC is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information, to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect. Protected health information is information about you, including demographic details, that can be used to identify you and that relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health, the care you receive, or payment for that care.

How we may use and disclose your health information

We may use and disclose your protected health information for the following purposes without your specific authorization:

  • Treatment. We use your health information to provide and coordinate your medical care, and we may share it with other providers, specialists, laboratories, or facilities involved in your treatment.
  • Payment. We may use and disclose your health information to bill and obtain payment for the services you receive — for example, by sending claims to your insurance plan.
  • Health care operations. We may use your information for activities necessary to run our practice, such as quality review, training, scheduling, and administrative functions.
  • Appointment reminders and care communications. We may contact you to remind you of appointments or to tell you about treatment options or health-related services.
  • As required or permitted by law. We may disclose your information for public health activities, to report abuse or neglect, for health oversight, in judicial or administrative proceedings, to law enforcement, to avert a serious threat to health or safety, and for other purposes permitted or required by law.

Uses and disclosures that require your authorization

Other uses and disclosures of your health information not described in this notice will be made only with your written authorization. This includes most uses of psychotherapy notes, uses for marketing purposes, and any sale of your health information. If you give us written authorization, you may revoke it at any time, in writing, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.

Your rights regarding your health information

You have the following rights with respect to your information:

  • Right to access. You may inspect and request a copy of your medical and billing records.
  • Right to amend. You may request that we correct health information you believe is incorrect or incomplete.
  • Right to an accounting of disclosures. You may request a list of certain disclosures we have made of your health information.
  • Right to request restrictions. You may ask us to limit how we use or disclose your information. We are not required to agree to all requests, but we will honor a request to restrict disclosure to a health plan when you have paid for the service in full out of pocket.
  • Right to confidential communications. You may ask us to contact you in a specific way or at a specific location.
  • Right to a paper copy of this notice. You may request a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
  • Right to be notified of a breach. You will be notified if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.

Changes to this notice

We reserve the right to change this notice and to make the revised notice effective for health information we already have as well as information we receive in the future. The current notice will be posted in our office and on this website, and will include its effective date.

Complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with our practice or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Contact us

To exercise any of your rights, to ask a question about this notice, or to file a complaint with our practice, please contact us: