Effective Date: September 17, 2026
This Notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can obtain access to this information. Please review it carefully.
This Notice applies to Dykal Health & Wellness and its healthcare professionals, workforce members, and others involved in providing and supporting your care.
Our Responsibilities
Dykal Health & Wellness is required to:
- Maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
- Notify you promptly if a breach occurs that may compromise the privacy or security of your information.
- Explain our legal duties and privacy practices in this Notice.
- Follow the terms of the Notice currently in effect.
- Provide you with a copy of this Notice upon request.
How We May Use and Disclose Your Information
Treatment
We may use and share your health information to provide, coordinate, and manage your healthcare. For example, we may share relevant information with another healthcare professional involved in your treatment.
Payment
We may use and share your health information to bill for services and obtain payment from you, an insurance company, or another responsible party.
Healthcare Operations
We may use and share your health information for activities necessary to operate the practice, such as quality assessment, staff training, credentialing, compliance, auditing, and business management.
Appointment Reminders and Communications
We may contact you about appointments, treatment options, follow-up care, health-related services, or other information that may be relevant to your care.
Business Associates
We may share health information with third-party service providers that perform services for the practice, such as electronic health-record, appointment, billing, technology, legal, accounting, or administrative services. When required, these organizations must agree to protect your information.
As Required or Permitted by Law
We may use or disclose health information when permitted or required by law, including for:
- Public-health and safety activities
- Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
- Health-oversight activities
- Judicial or administrative proceedings
- Law-enforcement purposes
- Workers’ compensation matters
- Preventing or reducing a serious threat to health or safety
- Certain government, military, national-security, or correctional activities
- Organ and tissue donation
- Coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors
- Research when applicable legal requirements have been satisfied
Uses and Disclosures Requiring Authorization
Uses or disclosures not otherwise permitted by law will generally require your written authorization.
We will obtain authorization when legally required before:
- Using or disclosing psychotherapy notes
- Using protected health information for certain marketing activities
- Selling protected health information
- Using or disclosing your information for another purpose not described in this Notice
You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, except to the extent that we have already acted in reliance on it.
Your Health-Information Rights
Obtain a Copy of Your Records
You may request to inspect or obtain an electronic or paper copy of health information maintained in your designated record set. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee as permitted by law.
Request a Correction
You may ask us to correct information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete. We may deny the request in certain circumstances, but we will explain the reason in writing.
Request Confidential Communications
You may ask us to contact you in a particular way or at a particular location. We will accommodate reasonable requests.
Request Restrictions
You may ask us not to use or share certain information for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations. We are not required to agree to every request.
If you pay in full out of pocket for a service and ask us not to disclose information about that service to your health plan for payment or healthcare operations, we will honor the request unless disclosure is required by law.
Receive an Accounting of Disclosures
You may request a list of certain disclosures of your health information made during the period permitted by law. The list will not include every type of disclosure, such as many disclosures made for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.
Obtain a Copy of This Notice
You may request a paper copy of this Notice at any time, even if you previously agreed to receive it electronically.
Choose a Personal Representative
If you have authorized another person to act for you, or if someone is legally authorized to represent you, that person may exercise your rights and make choices concerning your health information as permitted by law.
Your Choices
When legally permitted, you may tell us your preferences regarding sharing information with family members, friends, or others involved in your care or payment for your care.
If you are unable to communicate your preference—for example, during an emergency—we may share information when we believe it is in your best interest and permitted by law.
Changes to This Notice
We may change this Notice and make the revised Notice effective for health information we already maintain as well as information we receive in the future.
The current Notice will be available at our office and on our website. The effective date appears at the beginning of the Notice.
Questions or Complaints
If you have questions about this Notice, want to exercise your rights, or believe your privacy rights have been violated, contact:
Privacy Contact
Dykal Health & Wellness
2425 E Commercial Blvd., Suite 202
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Telephone: 954-408-0125
Email: customerservice@dykalwellness.com
You may also submit a complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.
We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint or exercising your privacy rights.