Notice of privacy practices

Our duties

ImagingLUX is required by law to keep your protected health information private, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, to follow the notice currently in effect, and to notify you if a breach affects your unsecured health information.

How we may use and share your information

• Treatment: to perform your imaging and share results with the physicians treating you.
• Payment: to bill and collect payment, including under a letter of protection.
• Health care operations: to run our centers, check quality and train staff.
• Appointment reminders and information about your care.

Sharing with your attorney

We share your health information with your attorney or their staff only when you have signed a written authorization allowing it. You may revoke that authorization in writing at any time, except for information already shared.

Other uses allowed or required by law

• When required by federal, state or local law.
• For public health and safety, such as preventing a serious threat.
• For health oversight activities and government audits.
• In response to a court order or valid subpoena.
• For workers’ compensation claims, as the law allows.
• To law enforcement in limited circumstances.

Uses that need your written permission

We will not use or share your information for marketing, sell it, or share psychotherapy notes without your written authorization.

Your rights

• Get a copy of your medical records, including in electronic form. Under Texas law we provide electronic records within 15 business days of a written request.
• Ask us to correct your records.
• Ask us to limit what we use or share.
• Ask us to contact you in a specific way or at a specific address.
• Get a list of those we have shared your information with.
• Get a paper copy of this notice.
• Choose someone to act for you, such as a legal guardian.
• File a complaint if you believe your rights were violated.

Complaints

You can complain to our privacy officer or to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Changes to this notice

We may change this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we hold. The new notice will be posted at our centers and on this website.

Privacy officer

Contact our privacy officer at intake@imaginglux.com.