A Patient Requests to See Her Health Care Record, but the Facility

question 39

Multiple Choice

A patient requests to see her health care record, but the facility declines the patient's request. Which of the following statements best applies to this scenario?

• A) The health care record belongs to the facility, and it cannot be mandated to produce the records.
• B) Declining the request may violate the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
• C) Paper-based charts must be reproduced for the patient, but electronic data is exempt from this ruling.

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