Internal Medicine Doctors of Mill Basin & Bergen Beach, Brooklyn

Doctor Bella Zimilevich, MD

718-942-4600

Internal Medicine Doctors
of Mill Basin & Bergen Beach, Brooklyn

Doctor Bella Zimilevich, MD of Mill Basin, Brooklyn (NY)

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Notice of Privacy Practices

Notice of Privacy Practices

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.

Gentle Medical, P.C.
6301 Mill Lane, Brooklyn, NY 11234 · (718) 942-4600
Effective date: September 27, 2026

Our Duties

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, and to notify you if there is a breach of your unsecured protected health information. We must follow the terms of the notice currently in effect.

How We May Use and Share Your Health Information

Treatment. We use and share your information to provide and coordinate your care. For example, your doctor may share your test results with a specialist to whom you are referred.

Payment. We use and share your information to bill and get paid for the care we provide. For example, we send information about your visit to your health insurance plan so it will pay for your care.

Health care operations. We use and share your information to run our practice and improve care. For example, we may review records to check the quality of care or to train staff.

People involved in your care. Unless you object, we may share with a family member, relative, close friend or other person you identify only the information directly relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or in paying for it. If you are not present, or cannot tell us your preference, for example in an emergency, we may share that limited information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share information with disaster-relief organizations so that your family can be told where you are and how you are doing.

Other Uses and Disclosures Allowed or Required by Law

We may use or share your information without your written authorization:

  • As required by law, including to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services when it checks our compliance with privacy law.
  • For public health activities, such as reporting diseases, injuries, vital events, adverse reactions to medications or product problems, and helping prevent or control disease.
  • To report suspected abuse, neglect or domestic violence to authorities as the law requires or allows.
  • For health oversight, such as audits, investigations, inspections and licensing.
  • In lawsuits and legal proceedings, in response to a court or administrative order, or to a subpoena or other lawful process.
  • For law enforcement purposes, as the law allows.
  • To coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors, as needed for them to do their jobs.
  • For organ, eye or tissue donation.
  • For research that meets the privacy law’s requirements.
  • To prevent a serious threat to the health or safety of you, another person or the public.
  • For specialized government functions, such as military, national security and protective services.
  • For workers’ compensation claims, as the law allows.

Stricter laws. Where another law gives your information more protection than federal privacy law, we follow the stricter law. For example, New York law gives special protection to HIV-related information, and federal law (42 CFR Part 2) protects certain substance use disorder treatment records. Substance use disorder treatment records we receive from programs covered by 42 CFR Part 2, or testimony relaying the content of those records, will not be used or disclosed in civil, criminal, administrative or legislative proceedings against you unless you give written consent, or a court orders it after you or the holder of the record receive notice and an opportunity to be heard, as provided in 42 CFR Part 2. A court order authorizing such a use or disclosure must be accompanied by a subpoena or other legal requirement compelling the disclosure before the record is used or disclosed.

Redisclosure. Once information is lawfully disclosed to a recipient outside our practice, the recipient may share it again, and it may no longer be protected by federal privacy law.

Uses That Require Your Written Authorization

We will not use or share your information for marketing, sell your information, or share psychotherapy notes without your written authorization. Any other use or disclosure not described in this notice will be made only with your written authorization. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, except to the extent we have already acted on it.

Your Rights

  • Get a copy of your records. You may ask to see or get a copy of your medical and billing records, on paper or electronically. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
  • Ask us to correct your records. You may ask us to amend information you believe is incorrect or incomplete. We may say no, but we will tell you why in writing.
  • Ask for confidential communications. You may ask us to contact you in a particular way or at a different address. We will agree to all reasonable requests.
  • Ask us to limit what we use or share. You may ask us not to use or share certain information for treatment, payment or operations. We are not required to agree, except that if you pay for a service in full out of pocket, you may ask us not to share information about that service with your health plan for payment or operations, and we will agree unless the law requires us to share it.
  • Get a list of those with whom we shared information. You may ask for an accounting of certain disclosures we made in the six years before your request.
  • Get a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.

To use any of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer at the number below.

Changes to This Notice

We reserve the right to change this notice and to make the new notice apply to all health information we hold. A revised notice will be posted in our office and on our website, and a copy will be available on request.

Complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us by contacting our Privacy Officer, or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, at www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints, by calling 1-877-696-6775, or by writing to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Contact

Privacy Officer, Gentle Medical, P.C., 6301 Mill Lane, Brooklyn, NY 11234, (718) 942-4600.