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Can a dentist release patient records without patient authorization?
I am seeing a new dentist and needed my x-rays forwarded from my old dentist to my new dentist. I sent the old dentist a signed release form giving him permission to send my records to my new dentist. Some how the old dentist managed NOT to send my records, rather he sent my husband’s records to my new dentist (my husband is no longer a patient of the old dentist, yet his records were still with the old dentist; and he is not a patient of my new dentist;). We knew this old dentist was shady from the start.
Is there anything legally wrong with the old dentist sending the new dentist my husband’s records without my husband’s consent? Is this a violation of HIPAA?
I don’t have the same last name as my husband…so they still goofed up pretty royally.
The shadiness had more to do with uncleanliness of the office and the not so through cleaning of teeth. I’m not concerned legally, rather inclined to report him to the ADA or such.
Rather than start a war, why don’t you just contact the old dentist, explain the mistake (which is what I think it was) and get it straightened out. It probably wasn’t even the dentist’s fault but that of the receptionist. If you start a war, she will probably end up being the one in trouble.
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