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.
Lyte Psychiatry is required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (PHI), to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect.
How we may use and disclose your health information
Treatment. We use your PHI to provide and coordinate your care — for example, sharing information between your psychiatric provider and therapist on your care team, or sending a prescription to your pharmacy.
Payment. We use and disclose PHI to bill and collect payment — for example, verifying your insurance benefits before your first visit or submitting claims to your health plan.
Health care operations. We may use PHI for activities that support our practice, such as quality review, training, licensing, and business planning.
Other uses permitted or required by law. These include public health reporting, abuse or neglect reporting, health oversight activities, judicial and administrative proceedings, law enforcement purposes as required by law, coroner or medical examiner requests, serious threats to health or safety, and workers' compensation. Psychotherapy notes receive additional protection — most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes require your written authorization.
Uses requiring your written authorization. We will not use or disclose your PHI for marketing, sell your PHI, or make most other uses not described in this notice without your written authorization. You may revoke an authorization at any time, in writing, except to the extent we have already acted on it.
Your rights regarding your health information
- Right to inspect and copy. You may request access to your medical and billing records, with limited exceptions such as psychotherapy notes.
- Right to amend. If you believe information in your record is incorrect or incomplete, you may request an amendment.
- Right to an accounting of disclosures. You may request a list of certain disclosures we have made of your PHI.
- Right to request restrictions. You may request limits on how we use or disclose your PHI. We must agree to a restriction on disclosures to your health plan for services you have paid for in full out of pocket.
- Right to confidential communications. You may ask us to contact you in a specific way — for example, only by phone, or at a particular address.
- Right to a paper copy. You may request a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
- Right to breach notification. We will notify you if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
Our responsibilities
We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI, notify you promptly of any breach, follow the duties and practices described in this notice, and not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us in writing that we may.
Changes to this notice
We may change this notice at any time. Changes will apply to information we already hold as well as new information. The current notice, with its effective date, will always be posted on this page and available at our clinic.
Questions or complaints
If you have questions about this notice or believe your privacy rights have been violated, contact our Privacy Officer:
- Email: info@lytepsych.com
- Phone: (469) 733-0848
- Mail: Privacy Officer, Lyte Psychiatry, 2900 W Park Row Dr, Pantego, TX 76013
You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Related policies
This HIPAA notice covers your health information as a patient. For how this website itself handles data, see our website Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Our commitment to an accessible website is described in our Accessibility Statement.