HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices
How we may use and disclose your health information, and your rights.
Last updated: August 2026
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. New Leaf Chiropractic is required by law to protect the privacy of your protected health information, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect.
Uses and disclosures for treatment, payment, and health care operations
We may use and disclose your health information, without your written authorization, for the following purposes:
Treatment. We may use your health information to provide, coordinate, and manage your chiropractic care, and to share information with other providers involved in your treatment, such as a physician, therapist, or specialist we refer you to.
Payment. We may use and disclose your health information to bill and collect payment for the services we provide, for example by sending claim information to your insurance company or verifying coverage.
Health care operations. We may use your health information for the general operation of our practice, such as quality review, staff training, scheduling, and improving the care and service we provide.
Disclosures required or permitted by law
We may use or disclose your health information without your authorization when the law requires or permits it. This includes, for example, public health activities, reporting suspected abuse or neglect, health oversight activities, judicial and administrative proceedings, law enforcement requests, coroners and funeral directors, organ donation, research under approved conditions, serious threats to health or safety, workers' compensation, and specialized government functions. We will make these disclosures only as allowed by law.
Uses and disclosures that require your authorization
Other uses and disclosures of your health information, including most uses of psychotherapy notes, marketing, and any sale of health information, will be made only with your written authorization. You may revoke that authorization in writing at any time, and we will stop making further disclosures, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.
Your rights
You have the following rights regarding the health information we keep about you:
Right to access and copy. You have the right to inspect and receive a copy of your health information, including in an electronic form when it is maintained electronically. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
Right to request amendment. If you believe information in your record is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend it. We may deny the request in certain cases and will explain why in writing.
Right to request restrictions. You may ask us to limit how we use or disclose your health information for treatment, payment, or operations. We are not required to agree to every request, but if you pay for a service in full out of pocket, you may ask us not to share that information with your health plan, and we will honor that request as the law provides.
Right to request confidential communications. You may ask us to contact you in a specific way or at a specific location, for example by mail to an alternate address. We will accommodate reasonable requests.
Right to an accounting of disclosures. You have the right to request a list of certain disclosures we have made of your health information.
Right to a paper copy. You have the right to a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive it electronically.
Right to be notified of a breach. You have the right to be notified if there is a breach of your unsecured health information.
Our duties
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information, to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to abide by the terms of the notice currently in effect. If we revise this notice, the new terms will apply to all information we maintain, and we will make the updated notice available in our office and on this website.
How to file a complaint
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with our office by contacting us using the information below. You may also file a complaint with the U.S. 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 in any way for filing a complaint.
Contact us
To exercise any of your rights, ask questions about this notice, or file a complaint with our office, please contact:
New Leaf Chiropractic, Dr. Curtis Begin, D.C.
1550 Norwood Dr Ste 209, Hurst, TX 76054
Phone: (817) 514-1908
Email: drcurtisbegin@gmail.com