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FAQs

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MedlinePlus is the health information website from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Find guidance you can trust about medical conditions, treatments, testing, medications, and more.

If you think the information in your medical or billing record is incorrect, you can request a change, or amendment, to your record. The health care provider or health plan must respond to your request. If it created the information, it must amend inaccurate or incomplete information.

Once you identify something you want to change, contact your healthcare provider and request a form for making amendments. Be clear with your request. Upon receiving it, your provider will have 60 days to act on your request. Your provider is not required to make the requested change.

Do the records belong to me? No, they do not belong to the patient. Medical records are the property of the medical provider (or facility) that prepares them. This includes films and tracings from diagnostic imaging procedures such as x-ray, CT, PET, MRI, ultrasound, etc.

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SUMMARY OF YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to have your medical records kept confidential unless you provide written consent, except in limited circ*mstances. You have the right to sue any person who unlawfully releases your medical information without your consent.

You can request your medical records via your health care provider's online patient portal, ask for copies of your records in person at your doctor's office or put the request to your provider in an email or letter.

Except in emergency situations in which a patient is incapable of making an informed decision, withholding information without the patient's knowledge or consent is ethically unacceptable.

The patient is the one who ultimately decides whether a medical record can be released, according to HIPAA regulations. Although medical professionals manage these records, release authorization lies with the patient.

You should always discuss all of your current symptoms with your provider. You can submit a request in MyChart to have a health issue added or deleted from your Current Health Issues and Problem List. At your next appointment, your provider will review the request with you and update your record as needed.

What is the difference between a medical record and a health record? ›

The term “Medical Records” implies clinician records for diagnosis and treatment, while the term “Health Records” more broadly denotes anything related to the general condition of the body.

The Patient's Family Members (Or Authorized Caregiver)

In the case of stay-at-home nurses and other private medical staff, they also have a legal right to a patient's medical chart and other medical records if duly authorized by the patient themselves.

While HIPAA protects a patient's right to privacy and medical information for up to 50 years after the patient's death, state laws on the duration of time that clinicians must retain medical records vary from state to state.

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