COMPANY LOGO - VAULT HEALTH LOGIN NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES Revised September 13, 2021 THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. This Notice of Privacy Practices (the “Notice”) describes how Vault Medical Services of California, P.C., Vault Medical Services of New Jersey, P.C., Union Square Physician Services, P.C., Omni Performance Practices, P.A., and Vault Medical Services, P.A. (including the members of the Vault Medical Services, P.A.’s, Affiliated Covered Entity (“ACE”) which are Union Square Physician Services, P.C., and Omni Performance Practices, P.A. and which may share protected health information with each other for the treatment, payment, and health care operations as permitted by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and this Notice of Privacy Practices) (collectively, “VMG Practices,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) may use and disclose your protected health information to carry out treatment, payment or business operations and for other purposes that are permitted or required by law. We may use or share protected health information for the treatment, payment, and health care operations of the VMG Practice as permitted by HIPAA and this Notice of Privacy Practices. “Protected health information” or “PHI” is information about you, including demographic information, that may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, treatment or payment for health care services. This Notice also describes your rights to access and control your protected health information. USES AND DISCLOSURES OF PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION: Your protected health information may be used and disclosed by our health care providers, our staff, and others outside of our office that are involved in your care and treatment for the purpose of providing health care services to you, to support our business operations, to obtain payment for your care, and any other use authorized or required by law. TREATMENT: We will use and disclose your protected health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your health care and any related services. This includes the coordination or management of your health care with a third party. For example, your protected health information may be provided to a health care provider to whom you have been referred to ensure the necessary information is accessible to diagnose or treat you. PAYMENT: Your protected health information may be used to bill or obtain payment for your health care services. This may include certain activities that your health insurance plan may undertake before it approves or pays for your services, such as: making a determination of eligibility or coverage for insurance benefits and reviewing services provided to you for medical necessity. HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS: We may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information in order to support the business activities of this office. These activities include, but are not limited to, improving quality of care, providing information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services, development or maintaining and supporting computer systems, legal services, and conducting audits and compliance programs, including fraud, waste and abuse investigations. USES AND DISCLOSURES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE YOUR AUTHORIZATION: We may use or disclose your protected health information in the following situations without your authorization: as required by law; for public health purposes; for health care oversight purposes; for abuse or neglect reporting; pursuant to Food and Drug Administration requirements; in connection with legal proceedings; for law enforcement purposes; to coroners, funeral directors and organ donation agencies; for certain research purposes; for certain criminal activities; for certain military activity and national security purposes; for workers’ compensation reporting; relating to certain inmate reporting; and other required uses and disclosures. Under the law, we must make certain disclosures to you upon your request, and when required by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate or determine our compliance with the requirements of HIPAA. State laws may further restrict these disclosures. USES AND DISCLOSURES THAT REQUIRE YOUR AUTHORIZATION: Other permitted and required uses and disclosures will be made only with your consent, authorization or opportunity to object unless permitted or required by law. Without your authorization, we are expressly prohibited from using or disclosing your protected health information for marketing purposes. We may not sell your protected health information without your authorization. Your protected health information will not be used for fundraising. If you provide us with an authorization for certain uses and disclosures of your information, you may revoke such authorization, at any time, in writing, except to the extent that we have taken an action in reliance on the use or disclosure indicated in the authorization. Psychotherapy Notes. A separate and specific authorization is required before we release your Psychotherapy Notes (defined by HIPAA to mean, with some exceptions, notes taken by a mental health professional regarding specific conversations or impressions during a private, group or family counseling session, which are kept separate from the rest of your medical record. These notes are given a greater degree of protection than other PHI. In some cases it is not appropriate for Psychotherapy Notes to be disclosed to anyone, and in such a case we may decline to disclose them. YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION: You have the right to inspect and copy your protected health information. You may request access to or an amendment of your protected health information. You have the right to request a restriction on the use or disclosure of your protected health/personal information. Your request must be in writing and state the specific restriction requested and to whom you want the restriction to apply. We are not required to agree to a restriction that you may request, except if the requested restriction is on a disclosure to a health plan for a payment or health care operations purpose regarding a service that has been paid in full out-of-pocket. You have the right to request to receive confidential communications from us by alternative means or at an alternate location. We will comply with all reasonable requests submitted in writing which specify how or where you wish to receive these communications. You have the right to request an amendment of your protected health information. If we deny your request for amendment, you have the right to file a statement of disagreement with us. We may prepare a rebuttal to your statement and we will provide you with a copy of any such rebuttal. You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures of your protected health information that we have made, paper or electronic, except for certain disclosures which were pursuant to an authorization, for purposes of treatment, payment, healthcare operations (unless the information is maintained in an electronic health record); or for certain other purposes. You have the right to obtain a paper copy of this Notice, upon request, even if you have previously requested its receipt electronically by e-mail. REVISIONS TO THIS NOTICE: We reserve the right to revise this Notice and to make the revised Notice effective for protected health information we already have about you, as well as any information we receive in the future. You are entitled to a copy of the Notice currently in effect. Any significant changes to this Notice will be communicated to you electronically. You then have the right to object or withdraw as provided in this Notice. BREACH OF YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION: We will notify you if a reportable breach of your unsecured protected health information is discovered. Notification will be made to you no later than 60 days from the breach discovery and will include a brief description of how the breach occurred, the protected health information involved and contact information for you to ask questions. COMPLAINTS Please direct any complaints about this Notice or how we handle your protected health information to our HIPAA Privacy Officer at privacynotices@vaulthealth.com or at (929) 430-6798. If you are not satisfied with the manner in which a complaint is handled, you may submit a formal complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint. We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this Notice. We will maintain the privacy of your protected health information and notify any affected individuals following a breach of unsecured protected health information. If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us at privacynotices@vaulthealth.com or at (929) 430-6798 and ask to speak with our HIPAA Privacy Officer. CAREERS CONTACT MEDIA PATIENT LOGIN FAQ PRIVACY POLICY TERMS & CONDITIONS ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES The clinical information in your patient portal is provided on behalf of your health care provider to facilitate your care. If you have any questions about your care, please contact your health care provider. All content in your patient portal has been approved by the health care practice from which you receive care. Vault Health, Inc. provides administrative services to Vault Medical Services, P.A., Vault Medical Services of New Jersey, P.C., Union Square Physician Services, P.C., and Vault Medical Services of California, P.C., each of which are independently owned by licensed physicians. Vault Health, Inc. does not own these medical practices, employ or in any way supervise or control the health care providers rendering care. The care provided by each health care practice is the sole responsibility of such practice and the providers the practice employs or contracts with. Services and office practices may vary across entities and you should contact the specific entity for all questions related to the health care services you receive. Vault Health, Inc. does not provide pharmacy services. Medications that may be prescribed with a valid prescription by health care providers employed or contracted by the physician practices Vault Health provides administrative services to are fulfilled and shipped by independent third-party licensed pharmacies. COMPANY LOGO - VAULT HEALTH © VAULT HEALTH INC. 2021