Your complete medical record from our office will be provided to you on a USB flash drive, in PDF format.  Faxing medical records to your new physician is not possible-the files are simply too large.  You may bring the flash drive to your new physician, or you can print the relevant information yourself that your new physician requests.

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A medical record release form ("release") signed by the patient, their legal guardian or parent, is required. This form can be downloaded from the link on the homepage and emailed to us at staff@fairhopefamilymedicine.com.  Complete the form by including your full identifying contact information including name, address, date of birth, signature, and signature date.  (No medical record number is needed)  Include a witness signature as well.  We will be providing all records so place a mark by the “ALL RECORDS” option. 

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The fee for each patient’s set of medical records is seven dollars ($7.00) for creating the files on a USB drive.  The current cost of mailing is approximately fifteen dollars ($15.00) and the mailing fee will be added to the record fee for a total cost of twenty-two dollars ($22.00). The mailing fee is subject to change based on US Postal Service fees.  This mailing fee includes the fee for delivery signature required. All mailed records will be sent by USPS with addressee delivery signature required (ie the patient/parent/legal guardian has to sign to receive the package.) 

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All payments will be collected online through this website.  Click HERE to order/pay online.  Send the completed release to staff@fairhopefamilymedicine.com.

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If you require your medical records to be printed out on paper, the fee is one dollar ($1.00) per page for the first 25 pages and fifty cents per page ($0.50) for each page thereafter plus a five dollar ($5.00) search fee plus the cost of mailing if necessary (these fees are prescribed by Alabama statute). We will first calculate the cost to print your medical records and call you to collect the fee before printing the records.  Most records are several hundred pages, as created by the electronic medical record system.