tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 11

You Be the Coder: Beware Medical Records Rules

Question: We discharged a patient due to non-payment, and one week later a new surgeon requested the patient’s records from our office. My surgeon wants to me to bill the patient for the records transfer. Is this something we can do? SuperCoder Subscriber Answer: No, you cannot bill the patient, the other provider, or anyone else for a records transfer from one doctor to another. The patient has the right to have her entire record transferred to another provider regardless of the reason your surgeon is no longer seeing the patient. Here’s why: The HIPAA final rule...

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