For HIPAA can a provider charge another provider for medical records?

I believe that a physician or hospital will sometimes bill a fee for photocopying medical records. (Similar to a "handling fee" that you are charged when ordering something by mail.) This fee will most often be passed down to the patient, either by the party who does the photocopying, or the party who had to pay to get the copies.

Now, as to whether or not a fee can be charged if a patient goes to pick up their original records at one physician's office and takes them to their new physician, that's a question of ethics, I believe. (I do not recall being billed when I did that myself, but then, my original family physician was retiring from practice and all patients who wanted their records were given the original ones -- not photocopies -- with no fee for this.)

This website has pretty good questions and answers about HIPAA:

http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consume...

no, the files are personal and the only way to get a hold of those records is to have a written letter of authorization from the patient. Without the patient's concent, no one including another provider can get the records. and a provider can not charge another provider for records.

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