An administrative law judge Tuesday rejected a challenge to a state Board of Medicine proposal that would increase the cost of copies of patient medical records. The 57-page decision by Judge Lynne A. Quimby-Pennock came after a long-running battle about the issue that included the Florida Justice Association trial-lawyers group and the Florida Medical Association. […]
In wake of Herald probe, DOC launches investigation into allegations that public record was forged – Naked Politics
The Florida Department of Corrections has opened a criminal investigation into whether a public record provided by the agency to the Miami Herald was forged. The document was a form, purportedly filled out and signed by inmate Harold Hempstead, the whistle-blower who in March leaked details to the newspaper about a gruesome death at Dade […]
Lawyers, Patients Fight Cost of Records – Health News Florida
Doctors used to give patients a copy of their medical records for free. But that service is waning, as today’s large group practices shed the hassle and risk by outsourcing the record-handling. For-profit companies in the new “release of information” or “disclosure-management” industry include HealthPort Technologies LLC in suburban Atlanta and Bactes Imaging Solutions LLC […]
