Practice Closed - Notice
Dear patients,
Advanced Pain Medicine Physicians, PLLC closed in February 2010. West Tacoma Surgery Center closed in January 2010.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you.
Your records should reside in the files of your referring doctor’s office as we faxed those within hours of your visit or procedure. For L&I patients, note that your records were always faxed to L&I on the date of service. There is a fee for searching, handling and printing out medical records if you desire your own copy. Try to obtain your records from them as it may no longer be possible for me to get them. Again, the practice that owned the charts, APMP, no longer exists.
WAC 246-08-400
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WAC 246-08-400
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How much can a medical provider charge for searching and duplicating medical records?
RCW 70.02.010(15) allows medical providers to charge fees for searching and duplicating medical records. The fees a provider may charge cannot exceed the fees listed below:
(1) Copying charge per page:
(a) No more than one dollar and two cents per page for the first thirty pages;
(b) No more than seventy-eight cents per page for all other pages.
(2) Additional charges:
(a) The provider can charge a twenty-three dollar clerical fee for searching and handling records;
(b) If the provider personally edits confidential information from the record, as required by statute, the provider can charge the usual fee for a basic office visit.
(3) This section is effective July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2011.
(4) HIPAA covered entities: See HIPAA regulation Section 164.524 (c)(4) to determine applicability of this rule.
Thank you,
Dr Jasper
The loss of my practice is mostly attributable to government regulation, big corporate medicine practices, and insurances interfering with doctor -patient decision making.
Many of you have asked where you can go for interventional pain management.
The answer is not simple as some providers are limited in what they can offer. The suggestions I would make are:
- David Velling, MD in Fedreal Way - provides the widest range of services with a great deal of experience. 253-874-8774
- Jon Geffen, DO in Tacoma
- Long Vu, MD and Kathy Wang, DO in Puyallup
