Walk It Through: Asking For The Records
A written request, a fee the section caps and adjusts each year, and a no record answer that counts.
A patient asks a chiropractor's office for a copy of their treatment history.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One patient's requests to one office. The rules for a deceased patient's records, emergency care records, and the notary fee are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Good Samaritan lawThe protection for licensed physicians, nurses and emergency medical technicians who in good faith render emergency care without compensation at the scene of an emergency or accident, and for others trained in first aid who give care, without compensation, to the level of that training.
- Search and retrieval feeThe part of the charge for a copy of a medical record that covers searching for and retrieving it, capped by the section and adjusted each February for medical care inflation.