Notice of Privacy Practices

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.

Caremax Medical Centers creates records about you and the treatment and services we provide to you. The information we collect is called Protected Health Information (“PHI”). We take our obligation to keep your PHI secure and confidential very seriously. We are required by federal and state law to protect the privacy of your PHI, to provide you with this Notice about how we safeguard and use it, and to notify you promptly following a breach of your unsecured PHI. When we use or disclose your PHI, we are bound by the terms of this Notice. This Notice applies to all electronic or paper records we create, obtain, and/or maintain that contain your PHI.

OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

This notice takes effect January, 01, 2019, and will remain in effect until we replace it. We must follow the privacy practices described in this notice while it is in effect. We may change the terms of this Notice at any time, and we may, at our discretion, make the new terms effective for all PHI in our possession, including any PHI we created or received before we issued the new Notice. If we change this Notice, we will update the Notice on our website, and copies will be available, upon request, at our Centers. In addition, you can request a copy of the Notice at the Center or by calling Customer Service at 305-425-9999. We will post any new Notice in a prominent location at each facility.