I was with Lancaster Medical for approximately 13 years. It is a 2 doctor practice with a revolving door of PAs.
If you re looking for a quick in and out DR this would be an ideal place. The PAs & DRs have set time limits on how long they spend with a patient.
They have very questionable billing tactics. They tried to make us pay for appointments for physicals they made but didn’t tell us about.
When I left I signed a release form to have them transfer my medical files over to my new DR. They hired a 3rd party. This 3rd party sends me a bill. I was NEVER notified that 3rd party would touch my records or that I would incur this charge; I wasn t even told that a 3rd party would be used to handle my records.
What irked me was that a third party(s) had access to my medical records without me signing a HIPPA release. I filed a complaint; but according to NYS it is supposedly legal for a DR to hire a 3rd party to have access to my records even without my consent. Mind you I had to sign a release for my wife; which I can understand because people get divorced. But my main gripe with this, is that I had to even sign a release for my own mother who gave birth to me; but NYS somehow doesn t see a company hired by a DR as a problem.
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