Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and various state laws, patients are guaranteed access to copies of their health information and medical records. To obtain copies of your medical records, you will need to call the doctor’s office, medical clinic, hospital or medical facility where you received treatment. Inform them that you are requesting copies of your medical records. In order to have the medical records released, you will also have to sign a release of information authorization form. Once the form has been submitted, the facility will release the records to you.
If you don’t want to deal with the medical facility where your records are housed directly, there are other options. For example, you can submit a release of information form and medical record request to OrderMedicalRecords.com and their network of document retrieval specialists can do all of the work for you.
