According to the new guidelines, providers can charge patients for labor costs associated with creating copies of the records; for supplies related to making copies of records; for postage associated with mailing records; or for a prepared explanation or summary of the records, should the patient agree in advance.
The guidelines also include viable grounds for denial if a provider does not wish to give records to a patient, a patient’s rights to direct their records to another individual, the types of requests for access patients may use, and a thorough definition of the precise information patients have a right to access.
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