HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

‍HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices

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.

PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF NOTICE: November 2022

Alphadera Labs, LLC is required by law to provide individuals with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect your "Protected Health Information" (defined below). This Notice describes the privacy practices of Alphadera Labs, its employees and other personnel (“Alphadera Labs,” “we” or “us”).

1. Our responsibility

Alphadera Labs and the members of its workforce are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information, genetic information, and laboratory test results.

Alphadera Labs is required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to keep your Protected Health Information confidential. This Notice describes our legal duties and privacy practices, and explains your patient privacy rights. When we use or disclose your Protected Health Information, we are required to abide by the terms of this Notice.

1. What is protected health information

Protected Health Information is your demographic information, medical history, laboratory results, insurance information and other health information that is collected, generated, used, and communicated by Alphadera Labs to produce genetic testing results and bill for our testing services. Examples of Protected Health Information include your name, date of birth, medical record number, social security number, insurance beneficiary number, and genetic information.

III. How we use and disclose your health information

Your Protected Health Information may be used and disclosed for treatment, payment, healthcare operations and other purposes permitted or required by law. Alphadera Labs may use and disclose your Protected Health Information for the following purposes:

TREATMENT

We may use or disclose your Protected Health Information for treatment purposes. For example, we may use your Protected Health Information to perform our testing services and disclose your genetic testing results to your physician and/or other healthcare providers involved in your care.

PAYMENT

We may use or disclose your Protected Health Information to obtain payment for healthcare services we provide. For example, we may use and disclose your information to send a bill to your insurance company or health plan to receive payment for the services provided to you.

HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS

We may use and disclose your Protected Health Information for our healthcare operations. For example, we may use your Protected Health Information to monitor the quality of our testing services and review the competence and qualifications of our laboratory professionals.

PERSONS INVOLVED IN YOUR CARE OR PAYMENT FOR YOUR CARE

We may disclose your Protected Health Information to person involved in your care or payment for your care, such as a family member, relative, or close friend, unless you object or ask us not to.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES

We may disclose Protected Health Information about you to your authorized personal representative, such as a lawyer, administrator, executor or other authorized person responsible for you or your estate.

MINORS' PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

We may disclose Protected Health Information about minors to their parents or legal guardians.

DISCLOSURES TO BUSINESS ASSOCIATES

We may disclose your Protected Health Information to other companies or individuals, known as "Business Associates," who provide services to us. For example, we may use a company to perform billing services on our behalf. Our Business Associates are required to protect the privacy and security of your Protected Health Information and notify us of any improper disclosure of information.

AS REQUIRED BY LAW

We must disclose your Protected Health Information when required to do so by any applicable federal, state or local law.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITIES

We may disclose your Protected Health Information for public health-related activities. Examples include: reporting diseases to authorized public health authorities; public health investigations; or notifying a manufacturer of a product regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a possible problem encountered when using the product in our testing process.

HEALTH OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES

We may disclose your Protected Health Information to a healthcare oversight agency for activities that are authorized by law, such as audits, investigations, inspections and licensure activities. For example, we may disclose your Protected Health Information to agencies responsible for ensuring compliance with the rules of government health programs such as

Medicare or Medicaid.

RESEARCH

Under certain circumstances, we may use or disclose your Protected Health Information for research purposes. All research projects at Alphadera Labs are subject to review by a committee responsible for ensuring the protection of individual

research subjects, appropriate patient authorization, and an adequate plan to safeguard Protected Health Information. In

preparation for research, we may review limited Protected Health Information to draft research protocols, to identify

prospective research participants, or for similar purposes provided the information is not removed from our premises.

JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS

Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your Protected Health Information in the course of a judicial or

administrative proceeding in response to a court order, subpoena or other lawful process.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

We may disclose your Protected Health Information to the police or other law enforcement officials as required by law or in compliance with a court order, warrant, subpoena, summons, or other legal process for locating a suspect, fugitive, witness, missing person, or victim of a crime.

THREATS TO HEALTH OR SAFETY

We may disclose Protected Health Information to prevent or reduce the risk of a serious and imminent threat to the health

or safety of an individual or the general public.

VICTIMS OF ABUSE, NEGLECT, OR VIOLENCE

If required or authorized by law, we may disclose Protected Health Information to a government agency, such as social services or a protective services agency, if we reasonably believe that an individual adult or child is the victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence.

ALL OTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES OF PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

We will ask for your written authorization before using or disclosing your Protected Health Information for any purpose not

described above. You may revoke your authorization, in writing, at any time, except for disclosures that the company has

already acted upon. A revocation of authorization must be submitted to the Privacy Officer at the address listed in Section

VIII below.

1. Your rights regarding your medical information

You have the following rights with respect to your Protected Health Information. To exercise any of these rights, please

contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information provided at the end of this Notice.

ACCESS TO PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

You, or your authorized or designated personal representative, have the right to inspect and copy the Protected Health

Information maintained by us. We may deny access to certain information for specific reasons, for example, where Federal and state laws regulating laboratories prohibit us from disclosing genetic testing results directly to a patient.

RESTRICTIONS ON USES AND DISCLOSURES

You have the right to request restrictions on our use and disclosure of your Protected Health Information. You also have the right to request a restriction on the Protected Health Information we disclose about you to someone who is involved in your care or payment for your care, such as a family member or friend. Except as described in this section, we are not required to agree to your request. We must agree to your request if the disclosure has been made to a health plan for the purpose of payment or health care operations and the disclosure relates to an expense for which you have been paid out of pocket. To request restrictions, you must send a written request to privacy@alphaderalabs.com.

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS

You have the right to request that we communicate with you about your Protected Health Information by alternative

means or to an alternative address. Your request must be in writing and must specify the alternative means or location.

We will accommodate reasonable requests for confidential communications.

CORRECT OR UPDATE INFORMATION

If you believe the Protected Health Information we maintain about you contains an error, you may request that we correct

or update your information. Your request must be in writing and must explain why the information should be corrected or

updated. We may deny your request under certain circumstances and provide a written explanation.

ACCOUNTING OF DISCLOSURES

You may request a list, or accounting, of certain disclosures of your Protected Health Information made by us or our business associates for purposes other than treatment, payment, healthcare operations and certain other activities. The request must be in writing and the list will include disclosures made within the prior six years.

COPY OF NOTICE

Upon request, you may obtain a paper or electronic copy of this Notice.

1. Information breach notification

We are required to notify you following the discovery a breach of unsecured Protected Health Information, unless there is

a demonstration, based on a risk assessment, that there is a "low probability" that the Protected Health Information has

been compromised. You will be notified in a timely fashion, no later than 60 days after discovery of the breach.

1. Questions and complaints

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices or would like a more detailed explanation about your privacy rights, please contact our Privacy Office using the contact information below.

If you believe that we may have violated your privacy rights, you may submit a complaint to our Privacy Office. You also may submit a written complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will provide you with the address to file your complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upon request.

Alphadera Labs will not take retaliatory action against you and you will not be penalized in any way if you choose to file a complaint with us or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

VII. Changes to our notice of privacy practices

We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this Notice at any time, provided such changes are permitted by applicable law.

We will promptly post any changes to this Notice on our website at www.alphaderalabs.com. Please review this website periodically to ensure that you are aware of any updates.

VIII. Contact information

When communicating with us regarding this Notice, our privacy practices, or your privacy rights, please contact the Privacy Officer using the following contact information:

Alphadera Labs

Attention: Privacy Officer
15355 W Vantage Pkwy.,
Ste 195, Houston, TX 77032

privacy@alphaderalabs.com