David Guest wrote:
Ken Wilson wrote:
But they do have to keep it for 7 years plus, for the taxman,
I thought it was three years for the tax man but you could be right.
and in medical negligence court cases it can be 21+7 years plus.
I don't think financial records are relevant to medical negligence
cases. There would be no medico legal reason to retain them for more
than 7 years.
At times the appointment schedule and what some one was billed for do
have a bearing on the case, as to what was tried to deal with an urgent
situation, or how the situation was viewed.
The ultimate repository of medical billing data is held by Medicare
Australia.
Medicare is an insurance company for those with medicare cards. The
doctors bill is to the patient, people have just got used to being able
to flick it to Medicare. Uninsured patients eg overseas travelers or
those with no medicare entitlement are still directly billed, workers
compensation cases are billed to the insurer; numerous doctors do not
deal with medicare for some or all patients, bill patient, patient pays
and patient claims partial rebate from Medicare and or private fund.
Most would have the backup disc and just hope someone could read it if
ever required.
Unlicensed copies of most medical software will permit read only access.
read only patient file by file, but not transfer of whole into a new
program. Try searching through years of data.
In any event, it's doubtful that anyone has ever tested the restore of
the backup. ;-(
very true
Ken
David
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