AODr. Ariel Ortiz®

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HIPAA & Patient Privacy Statement

How patient privacy is protected across this website and the clinical care delivered by the Obesity Control Center®.

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    This website is not a clinical portal

    DrArielOrtiz.com is a professional, educational, and academic website. It does not request, receive, or store protected health information (PHI). Please do not submit medical records, imaging, lab results, or other PHI through the contact form. Clinical inquiries should be directed to ObesityControlCenter.com, where the clinical team can respond through secure channels.

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    Obesity Control Center® — U.S. patients

    Clinical care delivered by the Obesity Control Center® (OCC) to U.S.-based patients is conducted in accordance with the privacy principles of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), to the extent applicable to a clinical facility operating in Mexico. OCC maintains administrative, physical, and technical safeguards designed to protect patient information.

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    Mexican data protection law

    OCC is located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and is subject to the Mexican Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties (Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares). Patient information is collected, used, and disclosed in accordance with that law.

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    What we do not do on this site

    We do not store medical records on DrArielOrtiz.com. We do not transmit PHI through unsecured email. We do not publish identifiable patient stories, photos, or testimonials without explicit, written, informed consent from the patient.

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    Educational examples and case discussions

    Any case examples, before-and-after imagery, or surgical footage published for educational purposes is either (a) used with written patient consent, (b) sufficiently de-identified that the patient cannot reasonably be re-identified, or (c) drawn from publicly available, peer-reviewed sources with proper citation.

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    Patient rights

    Patients receiving care at OCC have the right to access, correct, and request restrictions on their records consistent with applicable law. Patient privacy questions should be directed to the OCC patient services team via ObesityControlCenter.com.

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    Reporting a concern

    If you believe patient privacy has been compromised in connection with content published on this website, please use the professional contact form and select 'Media or Editorial' so the editorial team can investigate promptly.

Last updated: June 2026.