Your Information.
Your Rights.
Our Responsibility.
Notice of Privacy Practices
Effective October, 2025
Dear Patient,
Thank you for choosing Premier Bone & Joint Centers to provide your musculoskeletal care. In compliance with HIPAA, we would like to make you aware of your rights and our uses and disclosures as it pertains to your Personal Health Information.
Your Choice.
For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.
In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us the following:
Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care.
Share information in a disaster relief situation.
Include your information in a hospital directory.
If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
In these cases, we never share your information, unless you give us written permission:
Marketing purposes
Sale of your information
Most sharing of psychotherapy notes
In the case of fundraising:
If we contact you for any fundraising efforts, you can tell us not to contact you again.
Your Rights.
When it comes to your health information, you have certain rights. This section explains your rights and some of our responsibilities to help you.
Get an electronic or paper copy of your record
We will provide a copy of your health information, usually within 15 days of your request. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
Ask us to correct your medical record
You can ask us to correct information that you think is incorrect or incomplete.
We may say “no” to your re-quest, but we’ll tell you why in writing within 60 days.
Request confidential communications
You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, call, text or email) or to send mail to a different 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 health information for treatment, payment, or our operations. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say “no” if it would affect your care.
If you pay for a service or healthcare item in full, out-of-pocket, you can as ask us not to share information with your health insurer. We will say “yes” unless law requires us to share that information.
Get a copy of this privacy notice
You can ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time. It is also available here.
Choose someone to act for you
If you have given someone medical power of attorney or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information.
File a complaint if you feel your rights are violated
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or grievances. You may contact our Compliance Officer at 307-745-8851.
You can file a complaint with the HHS Rocky Mountain Regional Office:
Andrea Oliver, Regional Manager HHS/Office for Civil Rights
1961 Stout St, Rm 08-148, Denver, CO 80294
Customer Response Center:
Phone: (800) 368-1019
Fax: (202) 619-3818
TDD: (800) 537-7697
Email: ocrmail@hhs.gov
We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Get a list of those with whom we’ve shared information
You can ask for a list (accounting) of the times we’ve shared your health information for six years prior to the date you ask, who we shared it with, and why.
We will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment and health care operations, and certain other disclosures (such as any you asked us to make).
Your Choice.
For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.
In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us the following:
Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care.
Share information in a disaster relief situation.
Include your information in a hospital directory.
If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
In these cases, we never share your information, unless you give us written permission:
Marketing purposes
Sale of your information
Most sharing of psychotherapy notes
In the case of fundraising:
If we contact you for any fundraising efforts, you can tell us not to contact you again.