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Since meaningful use regulation has strong-armed almost all providers in the country into EMRs, it costs absolute pennies to provide those documents. And for m

• AnthonyMouse 8y ago
  > Since meaningful use regulation has strong-armed almost all providers in the country into EMRs, it costs absolute pennies to provide those documents. The reproduction cost is not the dominant factor in processing costs. Someone has to review the information, e.g. to make sure the file actually belongs to the requesting party and some clerical error doesn't cause them to receive someone else's records, the information may be in multiple independent systems, the request may be for a subset of the information which then has to be separated out, etc. Not all of that happens all of the time, which is why it costs $2 sometimes and $500 other times. > And for most people, 500$ for a medical record is effectively zillions. $500 is <1% of the median income in the US.
  • arkades 8y ago
    What’s sad isn’t how far off you are in your conception of what the process looks like; what’s sad is that what you’re describing sounds like an entirely reasonable security effort, and it’s disappointing that it has almost no reflection in reality. 500$ is also more than the majority of Americans have in their saving accounts. (http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings...)