Legal Question in Health Care Law in California

A large medical institution is now requiring approval on line with a signature agreeing to abide by some policies of the medical center before treating the patient. Is it mandatory and legal to require it?


Asked on 8/26/22, 3:37 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Medical institutions have always required you to sign paperwork to become a patient; it just used to all be on paper. The only thing that has changed is it's online, and there have been laws making e-signatures the same as ink signatures for many years now. Any particular provision of the agreement may or may not be enforceable, but that would require a review of the entire document. Requiring you to sign it, and abide by any provisions that are enforceable (which is probably but not certainly all of them) is perfectly legal.

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Answered on 8/27/22, 9:51 am


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