By now most healthcare professionals have been forced to deal with attorney requestors misusing the HHS/OCR guidance on Right to Access in order to obtain copies of their clients’ medical records for litigation purposes at… Read More
Right to Access records requests are one more regulatory burden where providers are expected to foot the bill. When the Office of Civil Rights issued new guidance in 2016 regarding Right to Access, they expected… Read More
By now most healthcare professionals have been forced to deal with attorney requestors misusing the HHS/OCR guidance on Right to Access in order to obtain copies of their clients’ medical records for litigation purposes at… Read More
You may have heard your office staff complain about an influx of calls from aggressive attorneys disputing invoices or complaining about the costs for patient copies of records. Believe it or not, this has nothing… Read More
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recently released a model form, taking the lead in providing a resource when a patient requests a copy of their health information. AHIMA is making strides to reduce… Read More
On Monday May 23rd, 2016, Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a clarification to a FAQ published February 25th, 2016 regarding reasonable fees allowed to be charged pertaining to a patient’s “right to access” their… Read More