Notice of Privacy Practices

Applies to: New Path Vision of Pottstown LLC

Effective date: September 8, 2026

Privacy contact

Privacy Officer, New Path Vision
1100 Heritage Drive
Pottstown, PA 19464
610-326-2754
pottstown@newpathvision.com

Please do not send detailed medical information through ordinary email. Call the practice if you need instructions for communicating sensitive information.

Your rights

You have rights regarding the protected health information we maintain about you. Subject to applicable law, you may:

• Ask to inspect or receive a paper or electronic copy of your medical record and other health information we maintain about you.
• Ask us to correct health information you believe is incorrect or incomplete.
• Ask us to contact you in a particular way or at a different address.
• Ask us to limit certain uses or disclosures of your information.
• Ask us not to disclose information to a health plan for payment or health-care operations when you paid for the applicable service or item out of pocket in full, unless disclosure is required by law.
• Request an accounting of certain disclosures of your health information.
• Ask for a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time.
• Authorize a legally recognized personal representative to act for you.
• File a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.

Requests may be subject to identity verification and other requirements permitted by law. Where a permitted fee applies to a copy of records, the fee will be reasonable and cost-based.

Your choices

In certain situations, you may tell us how you want your information shared. This can include sharing information with family members, close friends, or others involved in your care or payment for your care, and certain disclosures connected with disaster relief.

If you cannot tell us your preference, we may use professional judgment when the law allows it, including when sharing information is believed to be in your best interest or is necessary to reduce a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

Uses or disclosures that require your written authorization will not be made without it. This generally includes the sale of protected health information, certain marketing uses, and most uses or disclosures of psychotherapy notes if we were ever to maintain such notes.

How we may use and disclose your health information

Treatment

We may use and share your health information with physicians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, laboratories, pharmacies, other health-care professionals, and organizations involved in your treatment or coordination of care.

Payment

We may use and disclose your health information to bill for services and obtain payment from health plans, vision plans, patients, guarantors, or other responsible parties.

Health-care operations

We may use and disclose your health information to operate the practice, improve quality, train staff, conduct compliance activities, manage services, and perform other health-care operations permitted by law.

Other uses and disclosures permitted or required by law

When legal requirements are met, we may use or disclose health information for public-health and safety activities, health oversight, workers’ compensation, law-enforcement purposes, court or administrative proceedings, medical-examiner or funeral-director activities, organ or tissue donation, research, government functions, or other purposes authorized or required by law.

We will disclose information to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services when required to demonstrate compliance with federal privacy law.

Substance use disorder records

To the extent New Path Vision receives or maintains substance use disorder patient records that are protected by 42 CFR Part 2, those records receive the additional protections required by federal law. Such records may not be used or disclosed in civil, criminal, administrative, or legislative investigations or proceedings against you except as permitted by applicable law, such as with your written consent or an appropriate court order and subpoena.

More protective laws

If Pennsylvania law or another applicable law provides greater privacy protection than HIPAA for particular health information, we will follow the more protective requirement when it applies.

Our responsibilities

• We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
• We will notify you as required by law if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
• We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in the notice that is currently in effect.
• We will not use or disclose your health information in a way that requires your authorization unless you provide that authorization in writing.
• You may revoke an authorization in writing, subject to actions already taken in reliance on that authorization.

Complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may contact the New Path Vision Privacy Officer using the information above. You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. New Path Vision will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

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Changes to this notice

We may change the terms of this notice as permitted by law. A revised notice may apply to health information we already have as well as information we receive in the future. The current notice will be available at the practice and on this website.

Questions or paper copies

Contact the Privacy Officer at 610-326-2754 if you have questions about this notice or would like a paper copy.