Weird legal situation-wife wants financial records

I got a patient who I saw for a few years, his diagnosis and most of the medical stuff is not relevant. He would do better with treatment but stayed in the mild to moderate range. Getting to the point, the patient's wife several month's ago requested all of the patient's financial transactions with my office. So, the obvious out of the way, I told my assistant to tell her no. There's no HIPAA release. So okay fine. That settled the issue for several days. I later see the patient and... Read more
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