tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 22

Reader Question: Whom Do You Bill for Record Transfer Fees?

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

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