Federal court decision ends medical records scheme
By Beth Anne Jackson, Esq. and Allison Shelton, Esq. After a decision in Ciox Health Care LLC v. Alex Azar (Ciox) in January, health care providers will no longer be required to subsidize the provision of copies of medical records used by plaintiff attorneys to prove malpractice, personal injury and similar cases. The scheme was hatched after the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) published guidance in 2016 (Guidance) regarding patients’ ability to request that records...