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.
Uses and Disclosures
Treatment
Your health information may be used by staff members or disclosed to other health care professionals for the purpose of evaluating your health, diagnosing medical conditions, and providing treatment. For example, results of laboratory tests and procedures will be available in your medical record to all health professionals who may provide treatment or who may be consulted by staff members.
Healthcare Operations
Your health information may be used as necessary to support the day-to-day activities and management of High Altitude Mobile Physicians. For example, information on the services you received may be used to support activities to evaluate and promote quality care.
Law Enforcement
Your health information may be disclosed to law enforcement agencies, without your permission, to support government audits and inspections, to facilitate law enforcement investigations, and to comply with government mandated reporting.
Public Health Reporting
Your health information may be disclosed to public health agencies as required by law. For example, we are required to report certain communicable diseases to the state’s public health department.
Other use and disclosures require your authorization
Disclosure of your health information or its use for any purpose other than those listed above requires your specific written authorization. If you change your mind after authorizing a use or disclosure of your information you may submit a written revocation of the authorization. However, your decision to revoke the authorization will not affect or undo any use or disclosure of information that occurred before you notified us of your decision.
Additional Uses of Information
Medical management updates. Your health information will be used by our staff to periodically contact you evaluate your medical condition and confirm improvement. We may also contact you to coordinate pick up or drop off of medical equipment. Lab results, x-ray, test results, and other pertinent information, including medical instruction and advice are left on voice mail, through text message, or with a responsible adult at the number you have indicated to us.
Individual Rights.
You have certain rights under the federal privacy standards. These include:
• the right to request restrictions on the use and disclosure of your protected health information
• the right to receive confidential communications concerning your medical condition and treatment
• the right to inspect and copy your protected health information
• the right to amend or submit corrections to your protected health information
• the right to receive an accounting of how and to whom your protected health information has been disclosed
• the right to receive a printed copy of this notice
Practice Duties
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information and to provide you with this notice of privacy practices. We are also required to abide by the privacy policies and practices that are outlined in this notice.
Right to Revise Privacy Practices
As permitted by law, we reserve the right to amend or modify our privacy policies and practices. These changes in our policies and practices may be required by changes in federal and state laws and regulations. Whatever reason for these revisions, we will provide you with a revised notice on your next office visit. The revised policies and practices will be applied to all protected health information that we maintain.
Requests to Inspect Protected Health Information.
As permitted by federal regulation, we require that requests to inspect or copy protected health information be submitted in writing. You may obtain a form to request access to your records by contacting our office.
Complaints
If you would like to submit a comment or complaint about our privacy practices, you may do so be sending a letter outlining your concerns to:
High Altitude Mobile Physicians or the Office of Civil Rights
PO Box 3488
Breckenridge, CO, 80424
OR
1961 Stout Street, Room 1185 Denver, CO 80294-3538
If you believe that your privacy rights have been violated, you should call the matter to our attention by sending a letter describing the cause of your concerns to the same address. You will not be penalized or otherwise retaliated against for filing a complaint.
Contact Person
The name and address of the person you can contact for further information concerning our privacy practices is:
High Altitude Mobile Physicians
Attn: Office Manager
PO Box 3488
Breckenridge, CO, 80424
PHONE (970) 389-7999
Effective Date
This notice is effective on 02/2025.
Who we are:
Our corporation is High Altitude Mobile Physicians doing business as Summit Hormone Renewal.
Our website address is: https://summithormone.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.