MEDICAL RECORDS REQUEST
Here
at Orthopaedic Specialists, we pride ourselves in being
a paperless office. Our ability to expedite your requests
for medical records is simplified due to the advances
in our practice management system. All patient visit
records and are kept in our practice management system
eliminating the need to search and copy a patient’s
chart. The records can be faxed directly to the requestor
from our system.
Physician generated work slips are also created and
kept in our practice management system documenting the
applicable restrictions for each of our patients. This
assists managed care organizations in receiving all
necessary paperwork in a concise and timely manner.
Medical Records Release
You have a right to the information in
your medical record. But remember, since we own the chart
and the x-rays -- the physical objects, that is -- we
have a responsibility to protect the record from being
lost. So we will not release the original records. Copies
are perfectly adequate for any conceivable use.
It is widely accepted to charge a nominal
fee for copies, and we do. Your small record may not seem
like much to you, but remember we have many people every
day call for copies and often the record is large.
This can be expensive -- especially with
x-rays. X-ray film is expensive, and it consumes darkroom
chemicals to copy the films, as well as the technicians
time. So we charge $10.00 per copy for x-rays.
Please allow three to five working day
notice before you need to pick up the copies.
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