Although individual health records are the physical property of the healthcare practitioner or facility that compiled it, the information belongs to you. Under the Federal Privacy Rules, 45 CFR Part 164, you have the right to:

• Receive notice of the uses and disclosures we expect to make of your health information, including a paper copy of the notice if requested, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically
• Request additional restrictions uses and disclosures of your health information (though we are not required to agree to any such request), or request that we send you confidential communications by alternative means or at alternative locations
• Inspect and obtain a copy of your health record
• Request that your health record be amended
• Obtain an accounting of disclosures of your health information made after April 15, 2003, for purposes other than treatment, payment, or health care operations.

Under federal law, however, you may not inspect or copy the following records; psychotherapy notes; information compiled in reasonable anticipation of, or use in, a civil, criminal, or administrative action or proceeding, and protected health information that is subject to law that prohibits access to protected health information. In some circumstances, you may have a right to have this decision reviewed. Please direct requests, in writing, to: