Your medical history includes both your personal health history and your family health history. Your personal health history has details about any health problems you’ve ever had. Only you or your personal representative has the right to access your records.
A health care provider or health plan may send copies of your records to another provider or health plan only as needed for treatment or payment or with your permission. The Privacy Rule does not require the health care provider or health plan to share information with other providers or plans. HIPAA gives you important rights to access – PDF your medical record and to keep your information private.
See full list on hhs. A provider cannot deny you a copy of your records because you have not paid for the services you have received. However, a provider may charge for the reasonable costs for copying and mailing the records.
The provider cannot charge you a fee for searching for or retrieving your records. You do not have the right to access a provider’s psychotherapy notes. Psychotherapy notes are notes that a mental health professional takes during a conversation with a patient. (more…)