Gastroenterology Coding Alert

Reader Questions:

Do States Dictate Medical Record Fees?

Question: Since patients’ rights to access their medical records continue to dominate the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement activity, we had a question about state costs vs. federal costs for protected health information (PHI) requests. What should we do if our state law is different from HIPAA regarding fees that we may charge for providing patients with copies [...]
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