Treatment
We may use and share health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your dental care, including with specialists, physicians, dental laboratories, pharmacies, or other providers involved in treatment.
Patient privacy
Notice of Privacy Practices
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can access that information. Please review it carefully.
Effective date: October 16, 2026
This notice applies to Lakehills Dental Center, including its dentists, employees, and other personnel who handle protected health information on behalf of the practice.
Download the complete notice (PDF)Our responsibilities
Lakehills Dental Center is required by law to protect the privacy of your protected health information, provide this notice, follow the notice currently in effect, and notify you when a breach requires notification. When another applicable law provides greater privacy protection than HIPAA, the practice will follow the more protective requirements.
How health information may be used and disclosed
Payment
We may use and disclose information to bill for services, obtain insurance benefits, request prior authorization, process claims, or collect payment.
Health care operations
We may use and disclose information to operate the practice, evaluate and improve care, train personnel, conduct audits, manage billing, obtain professional advice, and perform other permitted administrative activities.
Appointments and care communications
We may contact you about appointments, treatment, follow-up care, or payment using available communication methods, subject to applicable law and reasonable confidential-communication requests.
Family and others involved in care
We may share information relevant to another person’s involvement in your care or payment when you agree, have an opportunity to object and do not object, or the law otherwise permits.
Business associates
We may share information with service providers performing functions for the practice. When required, those providers must agree to safeguard the information and limit its use and disclosure.
Subject to legal requirements and safeguards, information may also be used or disclosed for legal compliance, public-health activities, reports of abuse or neglect, health oversight, judicial proceedings, authorized law-enforcement purposes, prevention of serious threats, duties of coroners and funeral directors, organ donation, permitted research, special government functions, and workers’ compensation.
Information requiring additional protection
Additional federal and Texas protections may apply to certain substance-use-disorder records, HIV-related information, mental-health records, genetic information, and other sensitive information. Lakehills Dental Center will obtain additional consent or authorization when required and comply with applicable restrictions.
Uses requiring written authorization
Written authorization will be obtained when required, including for most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, marketing communications requiring authorization, the sale of protected health information, and other uses or disclosures not described in the notice unless otherwise permitted or required by law. Appropriate written authorization will be obtained before using identifiable patient photographs, videos, testimonials, or treatment information for public advertising, website promotion, or social media. You may revoke an authorization in writing; revocation does not affect actions already taken in reliance on it.
Your rights
Access your records
You may request to inspect or receive a paper or electronic copy of records used to make decisions about your care, including dental and billing records.
Request a correction
You may request an amendment if you believe information in your records is incorrect or incomplete.
Request restrictions
You may ask us to limit certain uses or disclosures. We generally are not required to agree, except in circumstances required by law, including certain fully self-paid services.
Request confidential communications
You may ask us to contact you in a particular way or at a different location.
Receive an accounting of disclosures
You may request an accounting of certain disclosures made during the six years before your request, subject to legal exclusions.
Obtain a paper copy
You may request a paper copy of this Notice at any time.
Act through a personal representative
A person legally authorized to act for you may exercise applicable rights after identity and authority are verified.
Receive breach notification
You have the right to receive notice when a breach of unsecured protected health information requires notification.
Changes to this notice
The practice may change its privacy practices and this notice as permitted by law. Revised terms may apply to information already maintained and information received in the future. The current notice will be available in the office, on this website, and upon request.
Questions, requests, or complaints
Contact the Lakehills Dental Center Privacy Official for questions about this notice, requests concerning your health information, or privacy complaints. Please do not include sensitive medical or dental details in ordinary email.
admin@lakehillsdental.comYou may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights at hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint. Lakehills Dental Center will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint or exercising your privacy rights.