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A recent federal court decision has set medical records regulations back more than a decade and resurrected document “profit centers” that have upended how lawyers receive critical records, an attorney for the nation’s leading patient-based records service told CVN. 

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A recent nationwide study of law firms revealed surprising results on the hidden costs of medical records requests, and a stark contrast in how those requests impact their practices’ bottom lines.

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The initial $22,000 bill for obtaining medical records in the client’s personal injury case wasn’t unusual in the industry. But the attorney needing those files paid only $51.50, through taking advantage of HIPAA and HITECH language, and an end-around to the explosion in time and medical-records costs that law firms have weathered over the past two decades.