2006-06-14 13:24:19 · 3 answers · asked by CubFan300 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Most states have laws that state you have legal rights to your own medical records but almost all of them also say that the institution can charge you for the copies,etc. Sorry your just SOL
2006-06-14 13:33:48 · answer #1 · answered by slichick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they call it Administrative charges. Way of getting those last few dollrs from you. Funny, they not give you those records since they YOURS and YOU paid for them, but, along with the government and Insurance help they use some scam to get more money from you instead of giving you your paid for records and you give them to your next doctor.
2006-06-14 13:30:11 · answer #2 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
completely legal. they ought to pay for the paper, the ink/toner and upkeep of their reproduction and fax machines that take diverse placed on and tear and tear from copying and faxing such diverse archives each and each of the time, and pay for the the worker whose time is taken out of alternative workplace duties to guard one of those request. Or, they ought to pay for the clinical archives corporation they settlement with to attempt this for them so their workplace team is accessible for the numerous different workplace duties that under no circumstances end. they're entitled to be compensated for those expenditures that ought to in the different case be out of their own pocket.
2016-10-30 22:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋