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fuckers. UWMC charges 69 cents per page for me to obtain a personal copy of my medical records. but, if they send the records to another health care provider, it's free--as a "professional courtesy." CT scans cost $8 per film, though they will burn a CD for free (not sure if i have to provide the blank CD or not). of course they're blaming it on HIPPA...
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Hell, the whole system pisses me off.
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I am all about people being involved in their care, but some reasonable deterrent to needing as many document copiers as other staff combined seems prudent. FWIW, I have seen one dollar per page quoted.
I fully support your working the system, and I am part of that system.
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i have a long family history that makes me highly cynical about medical bureaucracies. (ask me about my sister's death sometime.) i'm not cynical about the docs themselves--i take them as they come. most i like and trust, and some i don't, at about the same rate as for the general population. it's the conglomerations that frost my shorts (ha--that figure of speech is from my dad).
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