Preserving your medical records is essential

Do you have medical malpractice (also called medmal) case? Are you going to sue your doctor performing the operation? If it is- do you have all the medical records prepared as evidence? Having accurate records in medmal lawsuit is vital.

Remember for medical lawsuits filed in Georgia if something is not charted, it didn’t happen. And you might be thinking of getting your medical records easily. And, you just need to ask them for the records. Unfortunately collecting evidence in smooth way is a thing of nightmare.

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawyers would let you know about your rights under a federal law system called Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). You can check it, copy and make changes to your records. Your privacy is protected here.

Healthcare service providers would follow the same rules of HIPAA, but you need to gather the information from the records within 30 days of request in writing. Payment has to be made in Georgia for this. Know more about all these through Georgia Law Blog.

You can suggest changes; make corrections to your medical documents, add missing information. If you are being denied to do the alterations, rightfully add a note to your file stating the reason for the request. If rejected, you may file a written complaint with the Composite Board of Medical Examiners and the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

The major issue is that the doctors and hospital will try to goof up and hide all the records. Finally you would come up with lost, mystified, misfiled and wrecked records making your malpractice lawsuit challenging and difficult.