Is There Any Way to Correct Your Medical Records?

Question by heylaady: is there any way to correct your medical records?
Ok so this is a long story, so I’ll keep it short; was flipping through my moms medical records with her and there were so many MAJOR mistakes put in them from different doctors, and it gets passed around from doctor to doctor as refrence, I had to wonder, Is there any way you could correct them?

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Answer by manowarxxxxx
You can fill out a request for an addendum to the medical records with whoever currently houses the records. Usually there is a form to to that with and someone from Health Information and/or Compliance will review the request and either approve or deny the addendum.

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