Can I refuse insurance investigator’s visit to my home-based clinic?
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Can I refuse insurance investigator’s visit to my home-based clinic?
I am a chiropractor who has small practice out of my house. The insurance investigator of who hit my patient wants to get medical record by person not via paper. She wants to meet me at clinic and discuss patient case . Do I have a write to say no to come to clinic/my house and just mail the record?
Asked on May 15, 2012 under Accident Law, Oregon
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Yes, you have a right to not allow the investigator to come to your clinic, until and unless there should be litigation and she (her company or her client, who would be the litigant) specifically gets a subpoena or other court order requiring you to provide them access--something which is very unlikely, but not actually impossible. Until there is a subpoena or court order, then you would only need to provide her access if you had in some way consented to it (e.g., you have probably consented to cooperate in your own insurance carrier's investigations).
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