Notice of Privacy Practices

Effective Date: December 22, 2025

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.

Morning Light Wellness & Psychiatry, PLLC (the "Practice") is committed to protecting your privacy. The Practice is required by federal law to maintain the privacy of Protected Health Information ("PHI"), which is information that identifies or could be used to identify you. The Practice is required to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices (this "Notice"), which explains the Practice's legal duties and privacy practices and your rights regarding PHI that we collect and maintain.

Your Rights

Your rights regarding PHI are explained below. To exercise these rights, please submit a written request to the Practice using the contact information at the end of this Notice.

To Inspect and Copy Your Health Information

You can ask for an electronic or paper copy of your PHI. The Practice may charge a reasonable fee.
The Practice may deny your request if it believes the disclosure will endanger your life or another person's life. You may have a right to have this decision reviewed.

To Amend Your Health Information

You can ask the Practice to correct PHI you believe is incorrect or incomplete. The Practice may require you to make your request in writing and provide a reason for the request.

The Practice may deny your request. If so, the Practice will provide a written explanation for the denial and allow you to submit a written statement of disagreement.

To Request Confidential Communications

You can ask the Practice to contact you in a specific way (for example, at a different phone number or address). The Practice will accommodate all reasonable requests.

To Request Limits on What Is Used or Shared

You can ask the Practice not to use or share PHI for treatment, payment, or health care operations. The Practice is not required to agree if doing so would affect your care.

If you pay for a service or health care item out-of-pocket in full, you can ask the Practice not to share PHI about that service with your health insurer.

You can ask the Practice not to share your PHI with specific family members or friends by identifying the specific restriction you are requesting and to whom it should apply.

To Obtain an Accounting of Disclosures

You can ask for a list (an “accounting”) of certain instances in which the Practice has shared your health information. You can receive one accounting every 12 months at no charge; the Practice may charge a reasonable fee for additional requests within that period.

To Receive a Paper Copy of This Notice

You can request a paper copy of this Notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.

To Choose Someone to Act for You

If you have given someone medical power of attorney, or if someone is your legal guardian, that person may exercise your rights under this Notice on your behalf.

To File a Complaint

You can file a complaint directly with the Practice using the contact information at the end of this Notice.

You can 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, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints.
The Practice will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

To Opt Out of Fundraising Communications

The Practice may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you can ask not to be contacted for this purpose again at any time.

Our Uses and Disclosures of PHI

1. Routine Uses and Disclosures

The Practice is permitted under federal law to use and disclose PHI, without your written authorization, for certain routine purposes, including treatment, payment, and health care operations. The Practice typically uses or shares your health information in the following ways:

To treat you: The Practice can use and share PHI with other professionals who are treating you. Example: your primary care doctor asks about your mental health treatment.

To run health care operations: The Practice can use and share PHI to run the business, improve your care, and contact you. Example: the Practice uses PHI to send appointment reminders, if you choose to receive them.

To bill for your services: The Practice can use and share PHI to bill and obtain payment from health plans or other entities. Example: the Practice provides PHI to your health insurance plan so it will pay for your services.

2. Uses and Disclosures That May Be Made Without Your Authorization or Opportunity to Object

The Practice may use or disclose PHI without your authorization or an opportunity for you to object in the circumstances described below.

Public health: To prevent the spread of disease, assist with product recalls, and report adverse reactions to medication.
Required by the Secretary of Health and Human Services: We may be required to disclose PHI to HHS to investigate or determine our compliance with the Privacy Rule.

Health oversight: For audits, investigations, and inspections by government agencies that oversee the health care system, government benefit programs, other regulatory programs, and civil rights laws.
Serious threat to health or safety: To prevent a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
Abuse or neglect: To report abuse, neglect, or domestic violence to the appropriate authorities.
Required by law: When required by federal, state, or local law.
Judicial and administrative proceedings: To respond to a court order, subpoena, or discovery request.
Law enforcement: To help locate or identify a person, or to disclose information about a victim of a crime.
Specialized government functions: For military, national security, or protective service purposes, including intelligence and security clearance activities authorized by law.
Workers' compensation: To comply with workers' compensation laws or support related claims.
Coroners and funeral directors: To assist them in performing their legally authorized duties.
Organ donation: To organizations that facilitate organ donation or transplantation.
Research: For research that has been approved by an institutional review board.
Business associates: To organizations that perform functions, activities, or services on our behalf and are contractually required to protect your information.

3. Uses and Disclosures With an Opportunity to Object

Unless you object, the Practice may disclose PHI to your family, friends, or others involved in your care, if the information directly relates to that person's involvement, or if disclosure is in your best interest because you are unable to state a preference.

4. Uses and Disclosures That Require Your Written Authorization

The Practice must obtain your written authorization before using or disclosing PHI for marketing purposes, before selling PHI, and before disclosing psychotherapy notes (with limited exceptions permitted by law).

You may revoke a written authorization at any time by notifying the Practice in writing, using the contact information at the end of this Notice. The Practice will not use or share your PHI other than as described in this Notice unless you give written permission.

Contact Us

The Practice is required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI.
The Practice is required to abide by the terms of this Notice currently in effect. Where a more stringent state or federal law governs PHI, the Practice will follow the more stringent law.
The Practice reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice. Any changes will apply to PHI the Practice already has as well as PHI it creates or receives in the future.
If the Practice makes material changes to this Notice, you may obtain a revised copy by contacting the Practice or visiting our website.
The Practice will notify you if your unsecured PHI is compromised in a breach, as required by law.

Our Responsibilities

To exercise any of the rights described in this Notice, to request a copy of this Notice, or to file a complaint with the Practice, please contact:

Morning Light Wellness & Psychiatry, PLLC

Phone: (702) 337-2922 | Email: Support@MorningLightWellnessNV.com

This Notice is effective as of December 22, 2025.

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