Radiology Business October 5, 2022
Should patients read their radiology reports ahead of the doctor who ordered the exam? That’s not a new question. It was supposed to have been settled in the affirmative by the 21st Century Cures Act.
President Barack Obama signed the bill into law in late 2016. Its provision calling for immediate and unimpeded patient access went into effect in 2021. Under the clause, providers who try to “block” patients may be hit with hefty fines.
However, of late the wisdom of the Cures Act’s lack of nuance is getting rethought. The timing may have to do with the American Medical Association’s lobbying HHS to make commonsense exceptions to the current Cures prescription for patient notification.
In any case, two opinion...
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