Re: about medical records, help please
From: brilliant50@yahoo.com
Sat Mar 15 21:21:34 2003
At Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Lynn Creacy wrote:
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>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
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>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.
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>Lynn
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>A new friend
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Every record that I have ever received,
I had to pay for. I've also had to pay for
records that was needed by my lawyer.