Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Tennessee

Withholding medical files

I was preparing to go to Iraq with a company out of DC. They sent me to complete a physical before deploying to Iraq. A third party company set up the physical locally where I live in Tennessee and I took the physical. Things did not work out with me going to Iraq with them but it did not have anything to do with the physical. I called them requesting a copy of the phyiscal I took for my own records and they told me that it was for them only. I have no rights to it because they paid for it is what they claim. Is this true? Shouldn't I be able to get copies of a physical I took no matter who paid for it. If so, is there something I can show them to prove this to them. Thanks for your help.


Asked on 10/26/04, 9:48 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Dr. Michael A. S. Guth Tennessee Attorney at Law Assists Pro Se (without a lawyer) Parties

Re: Withholding medical files

Of course you have rights to your own medical records, even if they had been conducted at a top secret facility for the CIA. Tell them that Congress passed HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Accountability part imposed punitive fines on medical records holder who do not release them to the patient upon request by the patient. You may have to go to the medical clinic directly, rather than this bogus contracting company.

Look up "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" on the Internet and learn the law so you can quote from it.

Mike Guth

http://riskmgmt.biz

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Answered on 10/26/04, 10:09 pm


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