06/09/2023
I know we keep harping on this, but the Office of Civil Rights stated publicly they were going to keep releasing to the public information regarding settlements against health care facilities and doctor offices for not cooperating or dragging their feet regarding the timely release of patient records until doctors start following the law!
You CANNOT withhold release of records due to a patient owing you money!!
That is against the law!!
And you better have a VERY good reason if it takes you more than a few days to get a patients’ records transferred to another doctor or other instruction the patient has given you.
The OCR is now up to 44 complaints that have resulted in paid fines, that they have released!
One office has a $15k fine, but most have been $100k+!!!
On top of this we have the new 21st Century Cures Act that has even more strict rules regarding release of information.
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