Practice Management Alert

What Would You Do? Get to the Bottom of Record Release Refusal

Question: We’re treating a new patient and need to obtain the patient’s prior treatment records. The patient has requested that our office receive the records, per his access request. But the other provider notified our office that it will not grant the disclosure request and won’t send the records. What should we do? Vermont Subscriber Answer: "This is a difficult problem [...]
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