Notice of Privacy Practices

Effective date: August 17, 2026
Practice: Original You Advanced Laser, 7477 W Lake Mead Blvd, Suite 106, Las Vegas, NV 89128
Privacy contact: Privacy Officer · 702-631-5009 · info@OriginalYouLV.com

Our legal duty

We are required by law to maintain the privacy 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 affects your unsecured protected health information. “Protected health information” means information that identifies you and relates to your health, your treatment here or payment for that treatment.

How we may use and disclose your information without your authorization

• Treatment. To provide and coordinate your care. Your consultation notes, photographs, skin type assessment, medical history and treatment settings are used by the PA, NP or MD treating you and by Dr. Brian Citro, MD, FACS in his supervising role. If we refer you elsewhere — for example, sending a varicose vein to a vascular specialist — we share what that provider needs.
• Payment. To bill and collect for treatment, including verifying a financing application you asked us to submit.
• Health care operations. Scheduling, quality review, staff training and supervision, licensing, audits, and general business management of the practice.
• Business associates. To vendors who perform services for us, such as our practice-management, records, secure form and billing providers. Each is bound by a written agreement to protect your information.
• Appointment reminders and follow-up. To contact you about an appointment, a treatment result, or your next session, using the phone number, text number or email address you gave us and the preference you selected.
• Treatment alternatives and health-related benefits. To tell you about other treatments or services we offer that may interest you.
• As required by law. Including public health reporting, reporting suspected abuse or neglect, responding to a court order, subpoena or lawful government request, workers’ compensation, health oversight activities, law enforcement purposes permitted by the Privacy Rule, coroners and medical examiners, and to avert a serious threat to health or safety.
• Others involved in your care. If you bring someone with you or tell us it is fine, we may share information relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or payment.

Uses and disclosures that always require your written authorization

Any other use or disclosure will be made only with your written authorization. That includes most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, any use or disclosure for marketing that involves us receiving payment from a third party, and any sale of your protected health information. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, and we will stop, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it. If we ever conduct fundraising, we may contact you and you have the right to opt out of receiving those communications.

Substance use disorder treatment records

We are not a federally assisted substance use disorder treatment program. If we receive records of substance use disorder treatment from a program covered by 42 CFR part 2 — for example, as part of a medical history you or another provider sends us — those records carry stronger protection than other protected health information: unlike the rest of your record, using or disclosing them for treatment, payment or health care operations generally requires your written consent.

In addition, those records, and testimony relaying their content, may not be used or disclosed in a civil, criminal, administrative or legislative proceeding against you unless you give written consent, or a court issues an order after you or the holder of the record has had notice and an opportunity to be heard, as provided in 42 CFR part 2. A court order authorizing use or disclosure must be accompanied by a subpoena or other legal requirement compelling disclosure before the record is used or disclosed.

Your rights

• Inspect and copy. You may see and get a copy of your record, including an electronic copy of an electronic record, and we may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
• Amend. You may ask us to correct information you believe is wrong or incomplete. We may deny the request and will explain why in writing.
• An accounting of disclosures. You may ask for a list of certain disclosures we made of your information.
• Request restrictions. You may ask us to limit what we use or disclose. We are not required to agree, except that if you pay in full out of pocket for a treatment, we must not disclose that information to a health plan for payment or operations purposes if you ask us not to.
• Confidential communications. You may ask us to contact you at a particular number, address or by a particular method, and we will accommodate reasonable requests.
• A paper or electronic copy of this notice. On request, at any time.
• Notification of a breach of your unsecured protected health information.
• Choose someone to act for you. A personal representative with legal authority may exercise these rights on your behalf.

To exercise any of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer at 702-631-5009 or info@OriginalYouLV.com. We may ask you to put the request in writing.

Photographs

Clinical before-and-after photographs are part of your medical record and are used to track your progress. We will not publish a photograph of you on our website, in our office or in any advertising without your separate written authorization, and you may revoke that authorization at any time for future use.

Complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, tell our Privacy Officer at 702-631-5009 or info@OriginalYouLV.com. You 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. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Changes to this notice

We may change this notice and apply the change to information we already hold. When we make a material change we will post the revised notice in our office and on this page, and make copies available on request. The current version is always the one posted here.

If you have questions about anything in this notice, ask at your consultation or call 702-631-5009. Website information is handled separately — see our Privacy Policy.