A few institutions provide records for free and even fewer make them accessible on-line.įrom ' Patient Access to Personal Health Information: Regulation vs. Times also range widely, from 1–30 days (or longer for off-site records). Fees range very widely, from $2-55 for short records of 15 pages to $15-585 for long ones of 500 pages. We surveyed 73 hospitals across the US, with a geographic concentration around Boston, to determine their policies about fees for copying medical records and the expected time it takes to fulfill such requests. Personal life-long medical records rely on patients’ ability to exercise this right inexpensively and in a timely manner. Patients have a legal right under HIPAA to a copy of their medical records. Regarding United States, quote from ' Copy Fees and Patients’ Rights to Obtain a Copy of Their Medical Records: From Law to Reality' (2005): ****I also understand that CT-Scans are typically digital (computer-based), but can they print a copy of them? **I understand that maybe endoscopies might not be available because they are a camera and are not recorded. I want them personally because I'm constantly moving and constantly having surgery, and it would be greatly beneficial, but I've never known of anyone who had their own copy of their x-rays or ct-scans? It's always been the summary from the radiologist or specialist.

I know you can submit a medical-release form for medical documentation, but can one request copies of CT-Scans, MRI, X-rays & ultrasound/endoscopic imagery from Dr.'s/Surgeons for personal records? How so? So my medical-imagery is scattered all over the globe. Because of the many congenital-bone-fusions (due to Klippel-Feil-Syndrome) throughout my life, doctors have performed many, many medical-imaging tests (CT-Scans, MRIs, X-Rays, Ultrasounds, Endoscopies, etc.), which have led to numerous (15) surgeries.Īs an Archaeologist, I have lived all over the USA, Canada, UK, and Israel.

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