This Notice of Privacy Practices was last updated June 30, 2025.

Notice of Privacy Practices

Jasper Health Services Florida LLC (“Jasper Health”)

235 N Westmonte Dr, 1st and 2nd Floor, Altamonte Springs FL 32714

Privacy Contact Email Address: support@hellojasper.com

Effective Date: JANUARY 5, 2024

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.

We understand the importance of privacy and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your medical information.  We make a record of the medical care we provide and may receive such records from others.  We use these records to provide or enable other health care providers to provide quality medical care, to obtain payment for services provided to you as allowed by your health plan and to enable us to meet our professional and legal obligations to operate properly. We are required by law to maintain the privacy of protected health information, to provide individuals with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information, and to notify affected individuals following a breach of unsecured protected health information. This notice describes how we may use and disclose your medical information.  It also describes your rights and our legal obligations with respect to your medical information.  If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact our Privacy Officer listed above.

How Jasper Health May Use or Disclose Your Health Information

Jasper Health collects health information about you and stores it in an electronic health record/personal health record.  This is your medical record.  The medical record is the property of Jasper Health, but the information in the medical record belongs to you.  We may also receive and share PHI through health information exchanges. You may opt out of health information exchange and disable access to your health information by contacting us at support@hellojasper.com.  The law permits us to use or disclose your health information for the following purposes:

  1. Treatment.  We use medical information about you to provide your medical care.  We disclose medical information to our employees and others who are involved in providing the care you need.  For example, we may share your medical information with other physicians or other health care providers who will provide services that we do not provide.  We may capture session audio for transcription or note-taking purposes, which includes medical information about you. We may also disclose medical information to members of your family or others who can help you when you are sick or injured, or after you die.
  2. Payment.  We use and disclose medical information about you to obtain payment for the services we provide.  For example, we give your health plan the information it requires before it will pay us.  We may also disclose information to other health care providers to assist them in obtaining payment for services they have provided to you.
  3. Health Care Operations.  We may use and disclose medical information about you to operate Jasper Health.  For example, we may use and disclose this information to review and improve the quality of care we provide, or the competence and qualifications of our professional staff.  Or we may use and disclose this information to get your health plan to authorize services or referrals.  We may also use and disclose this information as necessary for medical reviews, legal services and audits, including fraud and abuse detection and compliance programs and business planning and management.  We may also share your medical information with our "business associates," such as our billing service, that perform administrative services for us.  We have a written contract with each of these business associates that contains terms requiring them and their subcontractors to protect the confidentiality and security of your protected health information. We may also share your information with other health care providers, health care clearinghouses or health plans that have a relationship with you, when they request this information to help them with their quality assessment and improvement activities, their patient-safety activities, their population-based efforts to improve health or reduce health care costs, their protocol development, case management or care-coordination activities, their review of competence, qualifications and performance of health care professionals, their training programs, their accreditation, certification or licensing activities, or their health care fraud and abuse detection and compliance efforts. We may also share medical information about you with the other health care providers, health care clearinghouses and health plans that participate with us in "organized health care arrangements" (OHCAs) for any of the OHCAs' health care operations. OHCAs include hospitals, physician organizations, health plans, and other entities which collectively provide health care services. A listing of the OHCAs we participate in is available from the Privacy Official.
  4. Appointment Reminders.  We may use and disclose medical information to contact and remind you about appointments.  If you are not home, we may leave this information on your answering machine or in a message left with the person answering the phone.
  5. Notification and Communication with Family.  We may disclose your health information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, your personal representative or another person responsible for your care about your location, your general condition or, unless you had instructed us otherwise, in the event of your death.  In the event of a disaster, we may disclose information to a relief organization so that they may coordinate these notification efforts.  We may also disclose information to someone who is involved with your care or helps pay for your care.  If you are able and available to agree or object, we will give you the opportunity to object prior to making these disclosures, although we may disclose this information in a disaster even over your objection if we believe it is necessary to respond to the emergency circumstances.  If you are unable or unavailable to agree or object, our health professionals will use their best judgment in communication with your family and others.
  6. Marketing.  Provided we do not receive any payment for making these communications, we may contact you to give you information about products or services related to your treatment, case management or care coordination, or to direct or recommend other treatments, therapies, health care providers or settings of care that may be of interest to you. We may similarly describe products or services provided by this practice and tell you which health plans this practice participates in. We may also encourage you to maintain a healthy lifestyle and get recommended tests, participate in a disease management program, provide you with small gifts, tell you about government sponsored health programs or encourage you to purchase a product or service when we see you, for which we may be paid. Finally, we may receive compensation which covers our cost of reminding you to take and refill your medication, or otherwise communicate about a drug or biologic that is currently prescribed for you. We will not otherwise use or disclose your medical information for marketing purposes or accept any payment for other marketing communications without your prior written authorization. The authorization will disclose whether we receive any compensation for any marketing activity you authorize, and we will stop any future marketing activity to the extent you revoke that authorization.
  7. Sale of Health Information. We will not sell your health information without your prior written authorization. The authorization will disclose that we will receive compensation for your health information if you authorize us to sell it, and we will stop any future sales of your information to the extent that you revoke that authorization.
  8. Required by Law.  As required by law, we will use and disclose your health information, but we will limit our use or disclosure to the relevant requirements of the law.  When the law requires us to report abuse, neglect or domestic violence, or respond to judicial or administrative proceedings, or to law enforcement officials, we will further comply with the requirement set forth below concerning those activities.
  9. Public Health.  We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information to public health authorities for purposes related to preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability; reporting child, elder or dependent adult abuse or neglect; reporting domestic violence; reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications; and reporting disease or infection exposure. When we report suspected elder or dependent adult abuse or domestic violence, we will inform you or your personal representative promptly unless in our best professional judgment, we believe the notification would place you at risk of serious harm or would require informing a personal representative we believe is responsible for the abuse or harm.
  10. Health Oversight Activities.  We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information to health oversight agencies during audits, investigations, inspections, licensure and other proceedings, subject to the limitations imposed by law.
  11. Judicial and Administrative Proceedings. We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information to health oversight agencies during audits, investigations, inspections, licensure and other proceedings, subject to the limitations imposed by law.
  12. Law Enforcement.  We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying with a court order, warrant, grand jury subpoena and other law enforcement purposes.
  13. Coroners.  We may, and are often required by law, to disclose your health information to coroners in connection with their investigations of deaths.
  14. Organ or Tissue Donation.  We may disclose your health information to organizations involved in procuring, banking or transplanting organs and tissues.
  15. Public Safety.  We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information to appropriate persons to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular person or the public.
  16. Specialized Government Functions.  We may disclose your health information for military or national security purposes or to correctional institutions or law enforcement officers that have you in their lawful custody.
  17. Workers’ Compensation.  We may disclose your health information as necessary to comply with workers’ compensation laws.  For example, to the extent your care is covered by workers' compensation, we will make periodic reports to your employer about your condition.  We are also required by law to report cases of occupational injury or occupational illness to the employer or workers' compensation insurer.
  18. Change of Ownership.  If Jasper Health is sold or merged with another organization, your health information/record will become the property of the new owner, although you will maintain the right to request that copies of your health information be transferred to another physician or medical group.
  19. ‍Breach Notification. In the case of a breach of unsecured protected health information, we will notify you as required by law. If you have provided us with a current e-mail address, we may use e-mail to communicate information related to the breach. In some circumstances our business associate may provide the notification. We may also provide notification by other methods as appropriate.‍
  20. Psychotherapy Notes.  We will not use or disclose your psychotherapy notes without your prior written authorization except for the following: 1) use by the originator of the notes for your treatment, 2) for training our staff, students and other trainees, 3) to defend ourselves if you sue us or bring some other legal proceeding, 4) if the law requires us to disclose the information to you or the Secretary of HHS or for some other reason, 5) in response to health oversight activities concerning your psychotherapist, 6) to avert a serious and imminent threat to health or safety, or 7) to the coroner or medical examiner after you die. To the extent you revoke an authorization to use or disclose your psychotherapy notes, we will stop using or disclosing these notes.
  21. Research.  We may disclose your health information to researchers conducting research with respect to which your written authorization is not required as approved by an Institutional Review Board or privacy board, in compliance with governing law.

When Jasper Health May Not Use or Disclose Your Health Information

Except as described in this Notice of Privacy Practices, Jasper Health will, consistent with its legal obligations, not use or disclose health information which identifies you without your written authorization.  If you do authorize Jasper Health to use or disclose your health information for another purpose, you may revoke your authorization in writing at any time.

Purpose

We respect your privacy. We are also legally required to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). 

As part of our commitment and legal compliance, we are providing you with this Notice of Privacy Practices (Notice). This Notice describes:

  • Our legal duties and privacy practices regarding your PHI, including our duty to notify you following a data breach of your unsecured PHI. 
  • Our permitted uses and disclosures of your PHI.

Your rights regarding your PHI.

PHI Defined

Your PHI:

  • Is health information about you:
    • which someone may use to identify you; and
    • which we keep or transmit in electronic, oral, or written form. 
  • Includes information such as your:
    • name;
    • contact information;
    • past, present, or future physical or mental health or medical conditions; 
    • payment for health care products or services; or
    • prescriptions.

Scope

We create a record of the care and health services you receive, to provide your care, and to comply with certain legal requirements. This Notice applies to all the PHI that we generate. 

We and our employees and other workforce members follow the duties and privacy practices that this Notice describes and any changes once they take effect.

Data Breach Notification

We will promptly notify you if a data breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your PHI. We will notify you within the legally required time frame after we discover the breach. Most of the time, we will notify you in writing, by first-class mail, or we may email you if you have provided us with your current email address and you have previously agreed to receive notices electronically.

Use of De-Identified and Aggregate Data

We may use and disclose de-identified and/or aggregate data generated from your participation in Jasper programs, including this six-week program, to improve our services, evaluate outcomes, and contribute to research that advances cancer care and support.

Any information used for these purposes will be de-identified and/or aggregated in accordance with applicable privacy laws (such as HIPAA), meaning it cannot reasonably be used to identify you personally.

De-identified and aggregated data may be used internally or shared publicly in research publications, presentations, or other educational materials to help improve understanding of supportive care for people impacted by cancer.

Your participation in Jasper’s programs does not require you to participate in any study that uses identifiable data. If we ever wish to use your identifiable information for research purposes, we would obtain your explicit, separate consent.

Your Health Information Rights

  1. Right to Request Special Privacy Protections.  You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information by a written request specifying what information you want to limit, and what limitations on our use or disclosure of that information you wish to have imposed.  If you tell us not to disclose information to your commercial health plan concerning health care items or services for which you paid for in full out-of-pocket, we will abide by your request, unless we must disclose the information for treatment or legal reasons. We reserve the right to accept or reject any other request and will notify you of our decision.
  2. Right to Request Confidential Communications.  You have the right to request that you receive your health information in a specific way or at a specific location.  For example, you may ask that we send information to a particular e-mail account or to your work address.  We will comply with all reasonable requests submitted in writing which specify how or where you wish to receive these communications.
  3. Right to Inspect and Copy.  You have the right to inspect and copy your health information, with limited exceptions.  To access your medical information, you must submit a written request detailing what information you want access to, whether you want to inspect it or get a copy of it, and if you want a copy, your preferred form and format.  We will provide copies in your requested form and format if it is readily producible, or we will provide you with an alternative format you find acceptable, or if we can’t agree and we maintain the record in an electronic format, your choice of a readable electronic or hardcopy format. We will also send a copy to any other person you designate in writing. We will charge a reasonable fee which covers our costs for labor, supplies, postage, and if requested and agreed to in advance, the cost of preparing an explanation or summary. We may deny your request under limited circumstances.  If we deny your request to access your child's records or the records of an incapacitated adult you are representing because we believe allowing access would be reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the patient, you will have a right to appeal our decision.  If we deny your request to access your psychotherapy notes, you will have the right to have them transferred to another mental health professional.  
  4. Right to Amend or Supplement.  You have a right to request that we amend your health information that you believe is incorrect or incomplete.  You must make a request to amend in writing and include the reasons you believe the information is inaccurate or incomplete.  We are not required to change your health information and will provide you with information about Jasper Health's denial and how you can disagree with the denial.  We may deny your request if we do not have the information, if we did not create the information (unless the person or entity that created the information is no longer available to make the amendment), if you would not be permitted to inspect or copy the information at issue, or if the information is accurate and complete as is.  If we deny your request, you may submit a written statement of your disagreement with that decision, and we may, in turn, prepare a written rebuttal. All information related to any request to amend will be maintained and disclosed in conjunction with any subsequent disclosure of the disputed information.
  5. Right to an Accounting of Disclosures.  You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information made by Jasper Health, except that Jasper Health does not have to account for the disclosures provided to you or pursuant to your written authorization, or as described in the above paragraphs 1 (treatment), 2 (payment), 3 (health care operations), 5 (notification and communication with family) and 16 (specialized government functions) of this Notice of Privacy Practices or disclosures for purposes of research or public health which exclude direct patient identifiers, or which are incident to a use or disclosure otherwise permitted or authorized by law, or the disclosures to a health oversight agency or law enforcement official to the extent Jasper Health has received notice from that agency or official that providing this accounting would be reasonably likely to impede their activities.
  6. Right to a Paper or Electronic Copy of this Notice.  You have a right to notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information, including a right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices, even if you have previously requested its receipt by e-mail.
  7. Right to Choose someone to act for you. You have the right to choose someone to act for you with respect to your health information.
  8. Right to File a Complaint. You have the right to file a complaint if you believe we have violated your privacy rights.

If you would like to have a more detailed explanation of these rights or if you would like to exercise one or more of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer listed at the top of this Notice of Privacy Practices.

Your Choices

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, please contact us and we will make reasonable efforts to follow your instructions.

In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us whether to:

  • Share information, such as your PHI, general condition, or location, with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care.
  • Share information in a disaster relief situation, such as to a relief organization to assist with locating or notifying your family, close friends, or others involved in your care.

If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may share your information if we believe it is in your best interest, according to our best judgment. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

In these cases, we will not share your information unless you give us your written permission:

  • Marketing purposes.
  • Certain research activities.
  • Other uses and disclosures not described in this Notice. 

You may revoke your authorization at any time, but it will not affect information that we already used and disclosed. 

In the case of fundraising: 

  • We may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you can tell us not to contact you again.

Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices

We reserve the right to amend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future.  Until such amendment is made, we are required by law to comply with the terms of this Notice currently in effect.  After an amendment is made, the revised Notice of Privacy Protections will apply to all protected health information that we maintain, regardless of when it was created or received.  We will keep a copy of the current notice posted on our website and a copy will be available upon your request at each appointment.  

Complaints

Complaints about this Notice of Privacy Practices or how Jasper Health handles your health information should be directed to our Privacy Officer listed at the top of this Notice of Privacy Practices.

If you are not satisfied with the way this office handles a complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to: 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights 800-368-1019, TDD 800-537-7697 or via email at OCRMail@hhs.gov.

The complaint form may be found at www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/hipcomplaint.pdf. You will not be penalized in any way for filing a complaint.