This construction-stage draft summarizes how protected health information may be used and disclosed and the rights patients may exercise.
Launch-stage framework: the effective date, mailing address, and final legal review will be completed before the site becomes public.
How health information may be used
MedSuao may use or disclose protected health information for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, and for other purposes permitted or required by law. Examples include coordinating care, billing for services, quality improvement, public-health reporting, and responding to lawful requests.
Your rights
Subject to applicable law, patients may ask to inspect or receive a copy of records, request corrections, request confidential communications, ask for certain restrictions, receive an accounting of certain disclosures, and obtain a paper copy of this notice.
Access and copies of records
Requests to amend records
Confidential communications
Certain restrictions and disclosure accounting
A paper copy of this notice
MedSuao's responsibilities
MedSuao is required to protect the privacy and security of protected health information, provide notice of its legal duties and privacy practices, follow the notice currently in effect, and notify affected individuals after a breach when required by law.
Questions and complaints
Patients may contact the MedSuao Privacy Officer at rocio.s@medsuao.com or (786) 745-6500. Patients may also complain to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. MedSuao will not retaliate for filing a complaint.
This notice requires final practice details and healthcare-attorney review before public launch. The final effective date and mailing address will be published here.