HIPAA Notification


Full Acceptance Counseling HIPAA Notification

Your Information – Your Rights – Our Commitment

  • Notice of HIPAA

  • Effective Date: March 1, 2022

  • Provider: Full Acceptance Counseling PLLC

This notice outlines how your personal health information may be used, shared, and protected here at Full Acceptance Counseling PLLC—and how you can access and control that information. We invite you to read it carefully, because your rights and your trust matter to us.


All clients receive a notice of privacy protection practices to review, ask questions about, and agree to, prior to becomming a client. This document is available in all client files and is available to access in each clients ©SimplePracice client portal.


Appoint a Health Care Representative
If someone holds legal authority through a medical power of attorney or court appointment, we’ll work with that person to respect your rights and wishes.


Our Responsibilities
At Full Acceptance Counseling PLLC, we are legally and ethically bound to:

  • Protect the confidentiality and integrity of your Protected Health Information (PHI)

  • Notify you if a data breach compromises your information

  • Only share your information with your permission (unless required or allowed by law)

  • Honor your written revocation of consent when applicable

For more information, visit www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/noticepp.html.


Your Choices
You decide how we share your information in these situations:

  • Involve your family, a loved one, or a support person in your care.

  • Share information in emergencies or disaster situations.

  • Contact you for appointment reminders.

We will never share or sell your information for marketing purposes.


How We Typically Use & Disclose Protected Health Information (PHI)

  • To Provide Therapy: We may use your information to coordinate your care with other providers you designate.

  • For Operational Needs: We use your information to run Full Acceptance Counseling PLLC smoothly and improve client experience and outcomes.

  • For Billing: We share necessary information with your insurer or other payers to obtain payment for services rendered.


How else can we use or share your health information? We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways – usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes. For more information see: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index.html.


Help with public health and safety issues
We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:

  • Preventing disease

  • Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence

  • Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety.

  • We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.

  • We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.

  • Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests.

  • For workers’ compensation claims.

  • For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official.

  • With health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law.


Respond to lawsuits and legal actions:

  • We can share health information about you to respond to a court or administrative order, or to respond to a subpoena.

  • We may use and release information about you for the purposes of legal cases in which our services are rendered for the purposes of providing an expert opinion. In response to a court or administrative order, we may be required to disclose information about you. We may also disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by another party involved in a legal dispute.


Changes to This Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice as practices or laws change.