Kentucky Mental Health Care, LLC has been and will always be totally committed to maintaining client confidentiality. We will only release healthcare information about you in accordance with federal and state laws and ethics of the counseling profession.
This notice describes our policies related to the use and disclosure of your healthcare information. Your health information may be used for the purposes of providing treatment services, collecting payment and conducting healthcare operations are necessary activities for quality care. State and federal laws allows us to use and disclose your health information for these purposes.
TREATMENT:We may need to use or disclose health information about you to provide, manage or coordinate your care or related services. Which could include consultants and potential referral sources
PAYMENT Information needed to verify insurance coverage and/or benefits with your insurance carrier, to process your claims as well as information needed for billing and collection purposes. We may bill the person in your family who pays for your insurance.
HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS We may need to use information about you to review our treatment procedures and business activity. Information may be used for certification, compliance and licensing activities.
There are some instances where we may be required to use and disclose information without your consent. For example, but not limited to: Information you and/or your child or children report about physical or sexual abuse: then by Kentucky State Law, we are obligated to report this to the Department of Children and Family Services; If you provide information that informs us that you are in danger of harming yourself or others, we must report this also; Information may be used to remind you of /or to reschedule appointments or treatment alternatives; Information shared with law enforcement if a crime is committed on our premises or against our staff or as required by law such as a subpoena or court order; Clinical records, psychotherapy notes and other disclosures require a separate signed release of information.
You have a right to or will receive notification of a breach of any unsecured personal health information. You have a right to restrict any disclosure of personal health information where you have paid for services out-ofpocket and in full.
METHOD OF CONTACT BY OFFICE
We may send you appointment reminders by text message or phone call and leave a voice message.
NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES AND CLIENT RIGHTS: I have read and received a copy of the Notice of Privacy Practices and Client Rights document.