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: September 27, 2026

This notice applies to health information created or received in the course of care you receive through Homefront, including by the independently licensed providers of our affiliated professional medical group (the "Practice") and by Homefront Health & Hormones LLC, which supports the Practice as its business associate. In this notice, "we" means the Practice and Homefront acting on its behalf.

Our responsibilities

• We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
• We will notify you promptly 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.

How we may use and disclose your health information

• Treatment. We share information with the providers, laboratories, and pharmacies involved in your care.
• Payment. We use information to bill and collect payment for your care.
• Health care operations. We use information to run the practice, improve quality, train staff, and review our services.
• Business associates. We share information with companies that perform services for us, such as our electronic health record, telehealth, and payment vendors, under written agreements that require them to protect it.
• Care communications. We may contact you about appointments, lab draws, refills, and treatment options.
• People involved in your care. Unless you object, we may share information with a family member, partner, or other person you identify who is involved in your care or payment for it. If you enroll with a partner, we do not share your health information with your partner unless you tell us we may.

Other uses and disclosures permitted or required by law

We may use or share your information without your authorization:

• When required by federal, state, or local law.
• For public health activities, such as preventing disease, reporting adverse reactions to medications, and reporting product recalls.
• To prescription drug monitoring programs, as required for controlled substances.
• To report suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence to government authorities, as allowed or required by law.
• To health oversight agencies for audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure.
• In response to a court or administrative order, subpoena, or other lawful process.
• To law enforcement as permitted by law.
• To prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
• To coroners, medical examiners, funeral directors, and organ and tissue donation organizations.
• For workers' compensation claims.
• For specialized government functions, such as military, national security, and protective services.
• For research approved under privacy safeguards.
• To the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to show that we are complying with federal privacy law.

Where a state law gives your information stronger protection, such as for mental health, HIV, or genetic information, we follow that law.

Uses that require your written authorization

We will not do the following without your written authorization: use or share your information for marketing, sell your information, use or share most psychotherapy notes, or publish any patient testimonial, photograph, or story. Any other use or disclosure not described in this notice also requires your written authorization. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, except to the extent we have already relied on it.

Your rights

• Get a copy of your health record. You can ask to see or get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other health information we have about you. We will provide it, usually within 30 days of your request, and may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
• Ask us to correct your record. You can ask us to correct information you think is incorrect or incomplete. We may say no, but we will tell you why in writing within 60 days.
• Request confidential communications. You can ask us to contact you in a specific way, such as by a different phone number or address. We will say yes to all reasonable requests.
• Ask us to limit what we use or share. You can ask us not to use or share certain information. We are not required to agree, except that if you pay for a service in full out of pocket, you can ask us not to share that information with your health insurer, and we will say yes unless the law requires us to share it.
• Get a list of those we have shared information with. You can ask for an accounting of certain disclosures we have made in the six years before your request. We provide one accounting a year for free.
• Choose someone to act for you. If you have given someone medical power of attorney, or someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights.
• Get notice of a breach of your unsecured health information.
• Get a copy of this notice on paper at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.

To exercise any of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer using the information below. Some requests must be made in writing, and we will tell you if so.

Changes to this notice

We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be posted on this website with a new effective date, and a copy will be available on request.

Questions and complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with us using the contact information below. You can also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting hhs.gov/ocr/complaints. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Privacy Officer, Homefront Health & Hormones LLC
Email: privacy@homefronthormones.com
Phone or text: (402) 909-4936