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apolonious t1_je14rp6 wrote

HIPAA is on your side! At least it should be: long story short, if you request your own records in electronic format from a healthcare provider that keeps them in electronic format, they can't charge you more than a reasonable expense.* Read more about the HITECH Act.

*I haven't looked at updates or anything in a few years but this was approximately true somewhat recently. I'm not giving legal advice here.

Edit: "reasonable expense" meaning something along the lines of $6 for a CD if they put the records on a CD. If they emailed them to you (or emailed you a link to download them) I'm not sure they can charge you at all; vague recollection is that they can only charge for the electronic medium.

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