Effective Date: May 21, 2026
Your Health Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.
This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
Your Rights
When it comes to your protected health information, you have rights. You may ask to inspect or receive a copy of your medical record, ask us to correct your medical record, request confidential communications, ask us to limit what we use or share, request an accounting of certain disclosures, receive a paper copy of this notice, choose someone to act for you, and file a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.
We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Your Choices
For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. Where permitted by law, you may direct how we share information with family, close friends, or others involved in your care. Uses such as marketing, sale of protected health information, or other uses not described in this notice generally require written authorization when required by law.
Our Uses and Disclosures
Treatment
We may use and share your health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your care, including referrals, medication review, hospital follow-up, and communication with other treating clinicians.
Payment
We may use and share your health information to bill and receive payment from health plans or other entities.
Health care operations
We may use and share your health information to run the practice, improve care, train staff, manage quality, and contact you when necessary.
Other permitted or required uses
We may use or disclose health information when required or allowed by law, including for public health and safety activities, health oversight, workers’ compensation, certain law enforcement or court requests, and other legally permitted purposes.
Our Responsibilities
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
- We will notify you if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
- We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
- We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us we can in writing. You may revoke that authorization in writing, except to the extent we have already relied on it.
Texas Medical Privacy
Adams Internal Medicine also recognizes applicable Texas medical privacy law, including Chapter 181 of the Texas Health and Safety Code. Texas law may provide additional protections for protected health information involving Texas patients.
Website and Electronic Communication Notice
Public website forms are for general contact, billing questions, and appointment requests only. Do not send symptoms, diagnoses, medications, lab results, Social Security numbers, insurance member IDs, payment card numbers, or urgent medical concerns through public forms. For emergencies, call 911.
Questions or Complaints
You may contact Adams Internal Medicine using the office contact information on this page. You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.