Silicon Beach Treatment Center Privacy Policy – HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR TREATMENT MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

Silicon Beach Treatment Center is required by law to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your health information and to provide you with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information. Please also respect the privacy of others you encounter in treatment.

Silicon Beach Treatment Center collects and stores your health information in an electronic health record. This is your medical record. The medical record is the property of Silicon Beach Treatment Center, but the information in the medical record belongs to you. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires Silicon Beach Treatment Center to maintain the privacy of your medical record. HIPAA generally requires that any uses or disclosures of information in your medical record be limited to the minimum necessary for the purposes of the uses or disclosures. HIPAA also provides you certain rights concerning the information in your medical record, which are described below.

Information relating to your treatment at Silicon Beach Treatment Center is protected by federal regulations specific to drug and alcohol treatment, which are known as 42 CFR Part 2. These regulations protect the confidentiality of information relating to the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient in a drug or alcohol treatment program. Silicon Beach Treatment Center may not disclose records relating to your treatment without your written consent, except in narrowly limited circumstances. Under 42 CFR Part 2, the terms of a written consent to disclose information must specify the scope and types of information to be disclosed, the parties to whom the information may be disclosed, the purpose of the disclosure, and the timeframe of the consent. You may revoke a consent to disclose information relating to drugs and alcohol verbally or in writing at any time.

Silicon Beach Treatment Center may ask for your written consent to disclose treatment information for specific purposes, including releasing treatment information to or obtaining information from your other medical providers, obtaining payment from insurance or other payors, contacting your family either for treatment purposes or in the case of a medical or other emergency. Silicon Beach Treatment Center will not disclose your treatment information for these purposes without your consent.

Silicon Beach Treatment Center may disclose treatment information without your written consent under certain narrow circumstances as permitted by 42 CFR Part 2. For treatment purposes, Silicon Beach Treatment Center is permitted to use and disclose treatment information internally and to entities with which it shares administrative control. Silicon Beach Treatment Center is permitted to share treatment information as necessary with qualified service organizations that agree to maintain the confidentiality of the information. Silicon Beach Treatment Center also may disclose treatment information to outside auditors, regulatory agencies, and evaluators for specific research purposes. Silicon Beach Treatment Center may disclose treatment information without your written consent when necessary in a life-threatening medical emergency. It may reveal to report a crime on the premises or against Silicon Beach Treatment Center personnel. Silicon Beach Treatment Center may also disclose patient information without consent where the state mandates child abuse and neglect reporting, when the cause of death is being reported, or when required by a valid court order that contains specific required findings. Silicon Beach Treatment Center may contact you to share information about Silicon Beach Treatment Center or to send you reminder notices of future appointments for your treatment.

1. Your Health Information Rights

In addition to protecting privacy and confidentiality, HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 afford you the following rights with respect to your medical record and drug or alcohol treatment information:

1. You have the right to a paper copy of this written notice of Silicon Beach Treatment Center privacy practices. 2. You have a right to request a copy of your treatment record or to receive 
2. your health information through a reasonable alternative means or at an alternative location. Silicon Beach Treatment Center requires that all such requests be put in writing. A reasonable fee will be charged for copying your health information.
3. You have a right to request that Silicon Beach Treatment Center amend health information that is incorrect or incomplete. If Silicon Beach Treatment Center determines not to amend the health information, it will provide you with an explanation of the reason for the denial and your right to disagree with the denial.
4. You have a right to request restrictions on otherwise permitted uses and disclosures of your health information. Silicon Beach Treatment Center is not obligated to comply with such requests.
5. You may request that we provide you with a written accounting of all disclosures made by us during a specific time period (not to exceed six years). We ask that such requests be made in writing on a form provided by our facility. Please note that accounting will not apply to any of the following types of disclosures: disclosures made with your written consent for reasons of treatment, payment, or health care operations; disclosures made to you or your legal representative or any other individual involved with your care. You will not be charged for your first accounting request in any 12-month period. However, for any requests that you make thereafter, you will be charged a reasonable, cost-based fee.
6. Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices

Silicon Beach Treatment Center reserves the right to amend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future and to make the new provisions effective for all information it maintains, including data created or received before the date of such amendment. Until an amendment is made, Silicon Beach Treatment Center must comply with this Notice. Should our privacy practices change, we will provide all current and future patients with a copy of the revised Notice of Privacy Practices.

Effective March 10, 2021

III. Complaints Regarding Privacy Practices

Complaints about this Notice of Privacy Practices or how Silicon Beach Treatment Center handles your health information should be directed to:

Silicon Beach Treatment Center

10211 Venice Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90034

If you are not satisfied with the manner in which this office handles a complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to one of the following:

Department of Health and Human Services

Office of Civil Rights

200 Independence Avenue, SW Room 509F, HHH Building

Washington, DC 20201

Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs

Bureau of Quality Assurance for Prevention and Treatment

State Health and Human Services

Oregon Department of Human Services

500 Summer St. NE E-15

Salem, OR 97301 

You may also address your complaint to one of the regional U.S Department of Health and Human Services Offices for Civil Rights. A list of these offices can be found online at: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/addresses.html