Re: about medical records, help please
From: Lynn Creacy (jlcreacy@gte.net)
Fri Mar 14 20:31:45 2003
At Fri, 14 Mar 2003, linda garcia wrote:
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>Hi all I just have a quick question and hope I can get some feed back as to what to do.
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>Not to long ago I called the hospital here and i requested my records, they want to charge me 20 dollars for the first 10 pages and then 10 cents for every page after that. I thought that they had to give the records free of charge. If this is so, how do I go about getting them without having to pay more. They are already getting enough of my money.
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>Thanks to all
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>love ya bunches
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>Linda
Linda,
Yes, this is correct. Your doctor's office can do the same. It is a
law because it takes man hours, copier, and supplies. You know that
since HMO's came into this world everything has changed. Sorry, but the
hospital is correct.
Lynn
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