Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer

Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer
Attunement Health and Wellness, PLLC

Appointments and Cancellations
Remember to cancel or reschedule 24 hours in advance otherwise the full fee will be applied. Returned checks for any reason will result in a $30.00 service charge.
Electronic Communication
We cannot ensure the confidentiality of any electronic media platforms, including text messages. Please use the patient portal for information you wish to keep confidential. While we may try to return messages in a timely manner, we cannot guarantee immediate response and request that you do not use these methods of communication to discuss. therapeutic content and/or request assistance for emergencies.

Services by electronic means, including but not limited to telephone communication, the Internet, facsimile machines, and e-mail is considered telemedicine by the state of Washington. Telehealth is broadly defined as the use of information technology to deliver medical services and information from one location to another.

Notice of Privacy Practices
I. This notice describes how health information may be used and disclosed and How you can get access to this information. Please review carefully:
-HIPPA compliance, all information that identifies you is kept private.
-Give you this notice of my legal and privacy practices with respect to health information.
-Follow the terms of the notice that is currently in effect.
-I can change the terms of this Notice, and such changes will apply to all information I have about you. The new Notice will be available upon request, in my office or website.

II. How I may use and disclose Health Information about you:
The following categories describe ways that we may disclose health information. For treatment payment, or Health Care Operations: Federal privacy rules (regulations) allow health care providers who have direct treatment relationships with the patient/client to access health information without the patient’s written authorization, to carry out the health care provider’s own treatment, payment or health care operations. I may also disclose your protected health information for the treatment activities of any health care provider. This too can be done without written authorization. For example, if a clinician were to consult with another licensed health care provider about your condition, we would be permitted to use and disclose your PHI, which is otherwise confidential, in order to assist the clinician in diagnosis and treatment of your health condition.

Disclosures for treatment purposes are not limited to the minimum necessary standard. Because therapists, and other health care providers need access to the full record and/or full and complete information in order to provide quality care. The word “treatment” includes, among other things, the coordination and management of health care providers with a third party, consultations between health care providers and referrals of a patient for health care from one health care provider to another.

Lawsuits and Disputes: If you are involved in a lawsuit, I may disclose information in response to a court or administrative order.

III. Certain uses and disclosure require your authorization:
Provider Notes: to share provider notes you need authorization unless otherwise permitted.
Sale of PHI or marketing purposes is not permitted.

IV. Certain uses and disclosures do not require your authorization. Subject to certain limitations in the law, I can use and disclose your PHI without your Authorization for the following reasons:
When disclosure is required by state or federal law, and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law.
For public health, including reporting suspected child, elder or dependent adult abuse, or preventing or reducing a serious health threat to anyone’s health or safety.
For health oversight activities, including audits and investigations.
For judicial and administrative proceeds/orders.
For law enforcement purposes, including reporting crimes occurring on premises.

Under the Cures Act enacted in 2016, you have the right to see and get copies of your PHI, electronic or paper copy or your medical record and other information that I have about you.

The Right to Get a Paper or Electronic Copy of this Notice. You have the right to get a copy by e-mail or an added fee (0.50 cents per page) for paper.