Originally Posted by
shanbaum
My opinion is, making and fitting eyeglasses is treatment.
I'm not sure you grasped my point, Ladyoptician; the "release" issue is the M.D.'s, not yours. As EyeFitWell correctly suggested, you can't force the M.D. to release information. And if the M.D. insisted on you getting the patient to provide you with written permission to seek the records before they would release them, I guess you'd have to do it, but it wouldn't have anything to do with HIPAA. And if they thought they needed permission to release the information, they should obtain it, not you.
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