HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

E-mail is not a secured form of communications and may not be an allowed form of transmitting personal protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. 

PHI will not be processed by this site.

The HIPAA privacy statues from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights took effect April 15, 2003.  These affect the information allowed by electronic form such as e-mail.  For more information please go to http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/.