HIPAA notice
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: To be confirmed. Privacy Officer: OceanCare Health Privacy Officer, reachable when you call (314) 703-8622 or email och@oceancarehealth.com.
Our duties
We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect, and to notify you if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
How we may use and share your information
- Treatment. We share information with your physicians, nurses, therapists and other providers involved in your care.
- Payment. We use and share information to bill and get paid by Medicare, Medicaid, health plans and others.
- Health care operations. We use information to run our agency, improve quality, train staff and meet accreditation and licensing standards.
- As required by law, including to Texas Health and Human Services, public health authorities, and to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation.
- Health oversight, legal proceedings, law enforcement, coroners, organ donation, research, serious threats to health or safety, specialized government functions and workers' compensation, as permitted by law.
- Family and friends involved in your care, unless you object.
We will not sell your information or use it for marketing without your written authorization. Other uses not described here require your written authorization, which you may revoke at any time in writing.
Texas law
Texas law gives you additional protections. We will not electronically disclose your protected health information to anyone for any purpose other than treatment, payment, health care operations or as otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law without your authorization. Where Texas law is more protective than federal law, we follow Texas law (Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 181).
Your rights
- Get a copy of your health and claims records, in paper or electronic form.
- Ask us to correct your records.
- Request confidential communications by a different method or location.
- Ask us to limit what we use or share. If you pay out of pocket in full, you may ask us not to share that information with your health plan.
- Get a list of those with whom we have shared your information.
- Get a paper copy of this notice at any time.
- Choose someone to act for you, such as a medical power of attorney or legal guardian.
- File a complaint if you believe your rights were violated.
Complaints
You can complain to our Privacy Officer, or to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights at hhs.gov/ocr/complaints or 1-877-696-6775. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
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 available on request, in our office and on this website.
Last updated November 02, 2026.