As a patient, would you like to know a health care organization’s track record of meeting medical record requests? An organization dubbed Ciitizen is doing the grunt work to provide such info.
When the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in September 2019 levied an $85,000 fine against Bayfront Health St. Petersburg in Florida for failing to provide a mother with timely access to medical records about her unborn child, it sent a very clear message that its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative has teeth. Bayfront was the first health care organization snared by the effort, launched in early 2019, that promised vigorous enforcement of patients’ rights to receive copies of their medical records promptly and affordably.
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