Sky,

First off, check your insurance contracts. If they do not specifically say it is your responsibility to copy and send the chart, don't do it! Mine say I have to make the chart available for review. So, when they want me to send copies I tell them they are more than welcome to send someone to my office to review the chart onsite (which is how it used to be done "back in the day"). If they say they cannot do that then I tell them there is the normal copying charge if they want me to send it to them. Pay me and I will send it.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "