HIPPA Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 1, 2025
Last Updated: October 1, 2025

Flora Naturopathics is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your Protected Health Information (PHI). This Notice of Privacy Practices explains how we treat medical records and PHI, your rights regarding your health information, and our legal duties as a healthcare provider.

We may use and disclose your PHI for the following purposes:

• Treatment: To provide, coordinate, or manage your healthcare and related services.
• Payment: To obtain payment for services rendered.
• Healthcare Operations: For administrative, quality improvement, compliance, and business-related activities.

We will not use or disclose your PHI for purposes not described in this notice without your written authorization, which you may revoke at any time.

You have the following rights with respect to your protected health information:

• Right to Access: You may request to review or receive a copy of your medical records.
• Right to Amend: You may request corrections to your PHI if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to Confidential Communications: You may request that we communicate with you in a specific way (e.g., at a certain address or phone number).
• Right to Restrict Use and Disclosure: You may request limits on how we use or share your PHI, though we may not always be able to grant such requests if required for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.
• Right to an Accounting of Disclosures: You may request a list of certain disclosures we have made of your PHI.
• Right to a Paper Copy: You may request a paper copy of this notice at any time.

As a healthcare provider, Flora Naturopathics is required by law to:

• Maintain the privacy of your protected health information.
• Provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices.
• Notify you in the event of a breach of unsecured PHI.
• Follow the terms of this notice as long as it remains in effect.

We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and update this notice. Any revised notice will be posted on our website and available upon request.

If you have questions about this policy, your rights, or wish to exercise your rights under HIPAA, please contact our Privacy Official:

Privacy Official: Dr. Maura Henninger, ND
Email: care@floranaturopathics.com
Phone: 646-876-9986