Effective date: August 8, 2026
This Notice describes how Ascendant Counseling Center may use and disclose health information about you, the rights you have regarding that information, and our responsibilities for protecting it. This web copy is intended to reflect current federal requirements and should be read together with any current notice provided directly to you during care.
Your rights
- Access your records. You may request to inspect or obtain a copy of health information maintained about you, subject to limited exceptions allowed by law.
- Ask us to correct information. You may request an amendment if you believe information in your record is incorrect or incomplete.
- Request confidential communications. You may ask us to contact you in a particular way or at a particular location.
- Request limits. You may ask us not to use or disclose certain information for treatment, payment, or operations. We are not always required to agree, except where the law specifically requires it.
- Receive an accounting of certain disclosures. You may request a list of certain disclosures of your information made during the period allowed by law.
- Receive a paper copy. You may request a paper copy of this Notice at any time.
- Choose someone to act for you. A legally authorized personal representative may exercise rights on your behalf when permitted by law.
- Complain without retaliation. You may raise a privacy concern with us or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will not retaliate against you for making a complaint.
How we may use and disclose health information
We may use or disclose protected health information without a separate written authorization when HIPAA or another applicable law allows it, including for:
- treatment and coordination of care;
- billing, claims, eligibility, and payment activities;
- health care operations such as quality improvement, supervision, training, compliance, credentialing, and business administration;
- communications with people involved in your care when permitted and appropriate;
- public-health and safety activities;
- reporting abuse, neglect, or other matters when required or permitted by law;
- health-oversight activities and lawful audits or investigations;
- court, administrative, or law-enforcement matters when applicable legal requirements are met;
- workers’ compensation and similar programs;
- research when legally authorized and required safeguards are in place;
- coroners, medical examiners, organ-donation organizations, or other legally authorized recipients; and
- other uses or disclosures required by law.
Uses that generally require your written authorization
We will obtain written authorization when required by law, including for many uses of psychotherapy notes, certain marketing activities, the sale of protected health information, and other uses or disclosures not otherwise permitted. You may revoke an authorization in writing, except to the extent action has already been taken in reliance on it.
Substance-use-disorder records
If Ascendant maintains records subject to federal substance-use-disorder confidentiality law, those records receive additional protections under 42 CFR Part 2. We will handle those records in accordance with HIPAA and Part 2, including applicable consent and legal-process requirements.
Our responsibilities
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of protected health information.
- We will notify affected individuals when a breach of unsecured protected health information requires notification.
- We will follow the Notice currently in effect.
- We may revise this Notice when our practices or applicable law change. The current version will be available on this website and from our office.
Questions or complaints
Privacy Officer, Ascendant Counseling Center
Phone: (702) 451-2141
You may also submit a HIPAA privacy complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. HHS complaint information ↗
Federal reference: HHS model Notices of Privacy Practices ↗