Privacy Policy & Notice of Privacy Practices
Effective Date: Aug 1, 2025
This notice describes how medical and personal information about you may be used
and disclosed, and how you can access this information. Please review it carefully.
Your Information, Your Rights, Our Responsibilities
Your Rights
When it comes to your health and personal information, you have certain rights. These include:
• Access: You may request an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other health information we have about you. We will provide it within 30 days of your request and may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
• Amendments: You may ask us to correct information you believe is incorrect or incomplete. We may deny your request but will provide a written explanation within 60 days.
• Confidential Communications: You may request that we contact you in a specific way (e.g., only at work or by mail). We will honor reasonable requests.
• Restrictions: You may ask us not to use or disclose certain information for treatment, payment, or operations. We are not required to agree unless you pay for a service out-of-pocket in full.
• Accounting of Disclosures: You may request a list of disclosures we have made of your health information for up to six years, except for treatment, payment, and operations.
• Paper Copy: You may request a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you received it electronically.
• Representation: If you have a medical power of attorney or legal guardian, that person may exercise your rights.
• Complaints: You may file a complaint if you believe your rights are violated, either with us (see contact below) or with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Your Choices
In certain situations, you have the right to decide how your information is shared. You may instruct us to:
• Share information with family, friends, or caregivers involved in your care
• Share information during disaster relief situations
• Use your information for fundraising communications (you may opt out at any time) We will never share your information for marketing, selling your data, or psychotherapy notes without your written authorization.
Our Uses and Disclosures
We may use and share your information for:
• Treatment: To provide you with medical and aesthetic services and coordinate your care.
• Operations: To manage our practice, improve quality of care, and communicate with you.
• Billing/Payment: To bill and receive payment from health plans, membership plans, or other entities.
We may also disclose information as required by law, for public health and safety, research, organ donation, medical examiner purposes, workers’ compensation, law enforcement, government functions, or in response to lawsuits and legal actions.
Our Responsibilities
• We are legally required to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
• We will notify you promptly if a breach occurs that may compromise your information.
• We will follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and provide you with a copy upon request.
• We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you give us written permission. You may revoke permission at any time.
Changes to This Notice
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The revised notice will apply to all information we maintain and will be posted on our website [www.skintimamd.com].
Contact Information
If you have questions, concerns, or would like to exercise your rights, please contact:
SkintimaMD
7800 SW 57 th Ave, Suite 217
Miami, FL 33143
Phone: 786-850-4818
Email: essence@skintimamd.com
You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights at:
200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone: 1-877-696-6775
Website: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints