Re: Dental Records





Both technically and legally, you are paying for the diagnosis and
clinical judgement. You are not paying for the physical records, and as
far as I can tell this has always been the case legally.

Well on the bill then it should have an itemization for records cost.
Unless the dentist pays for the film himself and the cost of using the
machine (which I doubt) the patient is truly paying for or funding the
creaion of the records and in addition paying for the diagnosis and
clincal judgement.

I suppose each side has a good point about ownership of records and
everyone can agree that the patient should pay for copies, but what
really bugs me is poor copies that aren't the quality of the orginals.
I don't know if this is typical but one OS gave me some kind of zerox
copy/printout of a panorex which was barely readable. With digitization
all copies and originals should be of the same quality so I suppose
even this will soon become a moot point.

cz

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