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Is the Bankruptcy Code Provision on Disposal of Patient Records Useless?

By Martin G. Bunin on March 21, 2019
Posted in Hospitals and Health Care Facilities

bankruptcy lawSection 351 of the Bankruptcy Code permits a health care business in bankruptcy to dispose of patient records if it lacks sufficient funds to pay to store the records in accord with applicable state or federal law.  Although section 351 was enacted in 2005, the provision appears to be little used.  That’s because the procedures…

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