Posts Tagged ‘medical records’
Government Resolves 42nd HIPAA Patient’s Right of Access Case
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office (OCR) recently resolved its 42nd case under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. The rule requires healthcare providers to give patients access to their health records upon request and for a reasonable fee. However, as we have previously written about, many providers are either…
Read MoreFive More Targeted by Right of Access Initiative
As the year comes to an end, we thought we would revisit the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. It’s a subject we have covered during the past two years that can hit providers in their wallet. The Privacy Rule generally requires HIPAA covered entities (health plans and most healthcare providers) “to provide individuals, upon request,…
Read MorePhysicians: Abandoning medical records can get you in trouble
The Florida Board of Medicine recently announced that there has been an increase in the number of reports concerning abandoned medical records. Physicians are either closing or relocating their practices and no longer caring for a certain population of patients. Although there are rules and statutes in place that govern the amount of time physicians…
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