
Why Hospitals Are So Slow to Release Medical Records
Hospitals can legally take 30 days plus a 30-day extension, and enforcement is rare: 54 OCR actions since 2019 against roughly 31,000 complaints a year.

Head of Customer Success at LlamaLab
Max Lushchan is Head of Customer Success at LlamaLab. He leads implementation, partner relationships, and the day-to-day work of getting firms live and getting records back. Before LlamaLab he ran customer success and professional services at Apporto and spent years in systems engineering. He writes about request process, authorizations, timelines, and how firms actually operate retrieval.
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Hospitals can legally take 30 days plus a 30-day extension, and enforcement is rare: 54 OCR actions since 2019 against roughly 31,000 complaints a year.

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