Reply #19: Problem with that is the hospital records cannot be given to anyone [View All]

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but the physician treating you, the hospital if you were admitted all have a copy of your insurance card. Before you ever see a doctor (you may have done this five years ago the first time you saw the doctor, or it may be on the bottom of every visit, you give them permission to contact your insurance company for payment and sometime you have signed your records rights away to your insurance company.

There is the one's selling information. Medical records from a physicians office as well as a hospital are private. However, Insurance companies can make lists and sell them to the highest bidders. You have to give them permission to have access to your records when you apply for some life insurances as well.

Just imagine all these little pod-looking things sitting in warehouse after warehouse in the deserts of Arizona. There are places that have every record that has ever been associated with you and your life.

And I'm not just saying this because it's Halloween either. I worked in Health Information Management for over 10 years and I know where these records go. (well, kinda).