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Re: My rights to my medical records?(long sorry)From: Dona (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:11:34 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Everyone..You all should be aware that it is a federal law that gives us the right to see and copy our medical records. Clinton passed it in 2000.Here is a link to a page that tells about it.Hope this helps clear some things up.http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa122200a.htm Dona (an exerpt) Consumers gain control over their health information Health plans and providers must tell consumers how their information is being used, and to whom it is and has been disclosed. Patients have the right to a "disclosure history," listing all parties that were given their information for purposes unrelated to their medical treatment within 60 days. Doctors and hospitals must get patients' written consent to use their health information -- even for routine purposes, such as treatment and insurance payment. Non-routine uses of records require separate, specific authorization by the patient. Patients have the right to see and copy their own records, as well as the right to request correction of potentially harmful errors in their health files. This may be the single most important provision of the new regulations. Without it, incorrect or inappropriate medical information could be used to deny health insurance, leaving the patient with no course of appeal.
>Sonnet wrote
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