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.
This Notice applies to protected health information ("PHI") created or maintained by Every Man’s Health in connection with treatment, payment, and health care operations.
1. What this Notice covers
This Notice concerns protected health information in your care relationship with the practice. It does not describe the operation of this public website. How this website handles information about the people who visit it is described separately in our Privacy Policy.
2. Our pledge regarding your health information
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 with respect to your PHI, to notify you following a breach of unsecured PHI, and to follow the terms of the Notice currently in effect.
3. How we may use and disclose your health information
We may use and disclose your PHI, without your written authorization, for the following purposes:
- Treatment — to provide, coordinate, and manage your health care, including by sharing information with physicians, laboratories, pharmacies, and other clinicians involved in your care.
- Payment — to bill and obtain payment for the services you receive, including verifying coverage, and consistent with our billing and payment practices.
- Health care operations — to support quality assessment, administration, scheduling, records, training, and the general operation of the practice.
- Appointment reminders, treatment alternatives, and health-related benefits or services that may be of interest to you.
- As required by law, and for public health activities, health oversight, judicial and administrative proceedings, law enforcement, and to avert a serious threat to health or safety, as permitted by applicable law.
4. Uses and disclosures that require your authorization
Uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes (where applicable), uses and disclosures for marketing purposes, and disclosures that constitute a sale of PHI require your written authorization. Other uses and disclosures not described in this Notice will be made only with your written authorization, which you may revoke in writing at any time, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.
5. Your rights regarding your health information
Subject to applicable law, you have the following rights with respect to your PHI:
- Right to inspect and copy — you may inspect and request a copy of health information used to make decisions about your care, in the form and format you request when readily producible.
- Right to amend — you may request that we amend health information you believe is incorrect or incomplete.
- Right to an accounting of disclosures — you may request a list of certain disclosures we have made of your PHI.
- Right to request restrictions — you may request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures; we are not required to agree to all requests, except as required by law.
- Right to request confidential communications — you may request that we communicate with you in a certain way or at a certain location.
- Right to a paper or electronic copy of this Notice — you may obtain a 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 following a breach of your unsecured PHI.
6. Our responsibilities
We are required to maintain the privacy of your PHI, to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect, and to notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction. We will not use or disclose your PHI other than as described in this Notice without your authorization, except as required or permitted by law.
7. Communicating with us about your health information
Once a treatment relationship is established, secure messaging through the Patient Portal or another approved practice communication channel is the preferred method for communications involving your health information. Please do not use ordinary electronic means for detailed or sensitive medical information.
8. Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with the practice by calling (352) 861-2115 or writing to us at the address at the foot of this website.
You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, by mail to 200 Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, by calling 1-877-696-6775, or online at www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/.
You will not be penalized or retaliated against for filing a complaint.
9. Changes to this Notice
We reserve the right to change this Notice and to make the revised Notice effective for all PHI we maintain. The current Notice will be posted on this website and available at the practice on request.
10. Effective date
This Notice is effective as of September 8, 2026.