HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

<h2>5. Your Rights Regarding Your Child's Health Information</h2><p>As the parent or legal guardian, you have the following rights. To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Privacy Officer using the information at the bottom of this notice.</p><h3>Right to Access Records</h3><p>You have the right to inspect and receive a copy of your child's health records, including treatment records and billing records. We will provide access within 30 days of your request (or 60 days if the records are stored off-site). We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee for copies. In most cases, we can provide records electronically if you prefer.</p><h3>Right to Amend Records</h3><p>If you believe your child's health information is inaccurate or incomplete, you may request that we correct it. We will respond within 60 days. We may deny the request in limited circumstances (for example, if we did not create the record). If we deny your request, we will explain why in writing, and you may submit a written statement of disagreement.</p><h3>Right to an Accounting of Disclosures</h3><p>You have the right to receive a list of certain disclosures we have made of your child's health information during the past six years. This list does not include disclosures made for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations, or disclosures you authorized. We will provide the first accounting in any 12-month period at no charge; we may charge a reasonable fee for additional requests.</p><h3>Right to Request Restrictions</h3><p>You may ask us to limit how we use or share your child's information for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations. We are not required to agree to your request unless you ask us not to share information with your health plan about services you paid for entirely out of pocket. If we agree to a restriction, we will honor it unless the information is needed to provide emergency care.</p><h3>Right to Confidential Communications</h3><p>You may ask us to contact you in a specific way, such as by email only rather than phone, or at a different address. We will accommodate reasonable requests. We will not ask you to explain why you are making the request.</p><h3>Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice</h3><p>Even if you received this notice electronically, you may request a paper copy at any time. Contact us using the information below and we will mail one to you.</p><h3>Right to Be Notified of a Breach</h3><p>If we discover that your child's unsecured protected health information has been accessed or disclosed without authorization, we are required by federal law to notify you promptly, generally within 60 days of discovering the breach.</p><h2>6. Our Duties</h2><p>Achieving Stars Therapy is required by law to:</p><ul><li>Maintain the privacy of your child's protected health information</li><li>Provide you with this notice describing our legal duties and privacy practices</li><li>Follow the terms of the notice currently in effect</li><li>Notify you if we believe a breach of your child's unsecured information has occurred</li></ul><p>We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this notice. If we make a significant change, we will revise this notice and make the new version available on our website and in our office. The new notice will apply to information we already hold, as well as information we receive going forward.</p><h2>7. How to File a Complaint</h2><p>If you believe your rights under HIPAA have been violated, you have two options. You can file a complaint directly with us, or you can file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You may do both. We will not retaliate against you or your child for filing a complaint.</p><div class="callout"><p><strong>File with Achieving Stars Therapy:</strong> Contact our Privacy Officer by phone, email, or fax. We will acknowledge your complaint within 5 business days and work to resolve it within 30 days.</p><p><strong>File with HHS Office for Civil Rights:</strong><br> U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<br> Office for Civil Rights<br> 200 Independence Avenue, S.W.<br> Washington, D.C. 20201<br> Phone: 1-800-368-1019 | TDD: 1-800-537-7697<br> Online: <a href="https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/smartscreen/main.jsf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ocrportal.hhs.gov</a></p></div><h2>8. Questions About This Notice?</h2><p>If you have questions about this notice or want to exercise any of your rights, please contact our Privacy Officer.</p><div class="contact-block"><p><strong>Achieving Stars Therapy — Privacy Officer</strong></p><p>Phone: <a href="tel:+18336663115">(833) 666-3115</a></p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:privacy@achievingstarstherapy.com">privacy@achievingstarstherapy.com</a></p><p>Fax: (833) 666-1401</p></div><p style="font-size:14px; color:#6B7280;">This notice is required under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 45 CFR § 164.520. References to "you" and "your" in this notice refer to the parent or legal guardian of the child receiving services, as well as the child once they reach the age of majority and hold their own rights under applicable law.</p><div class="related"><strong>Related:</strong><a href="/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a> · <a href="/hipaa-notice-of-privacy-practices">HIPAA Notice</a> · <a href="/non-discrimination-notice">Non-Discrimination Notice</a> · <a href="/accessibility-statement">Accessibility Statement</a> · <a href="/medical-disclaimer">Medical Disclaimer</a> · <a href="/complaints-and-grievance-policy">Complaints Policy</a> · <a href="/terms-and-conditions">Terms</a></div></article>

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