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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 20:10:41+00:00

Document:
Gets a receipt for the request, or at least the clerk's date stamp on a copy.
Agent signs affidavit of delivery.
Provider must make copies available within 5 days for 10 cents/page + $16/hr for clerk.
c. Provider charges pt $15 max.
An OSC is a way to get a Preliminary Injunction when the other party hasn't appeared in a case.
File the verified complaint first.
Take a file-stamped copy to the judge.
The OSC describes the injunction to be sought at the hearing.
OSC presented to judge for signing within 1 day after granting the application.
Judge signs the proposed order. A deposit may be required??
Serve it like a summons and complaint.
a. It must be answered by HMO within 20 days.
b. If need is urgent, judge can shorten time for answer.
12. Atty reimburses Pt for costs of OSC.
13. Atty buys a glass of wine with the profits from his fee award.
I, ______________________, am or have been a patient at ______________________ HMO, and I hereby authorize and, pursuant to California Health & Safety Code §123110, request that the HMO make available ALL of my records in its possession or control, 5 calendar days from this date, i.e., on ______________________, at 10AM, for copying by me and/or my agent.
This request covers all records within your system, wherever stored, including paper, electronic, telephone, fax, medical, administrative, billing, active, stored, and from all areas, including, without limitation, inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, radiology, laboratory, pathology, pharmacy, cardiology, physical therapy, neurology, etc.., including any sent to you by doctors outside your system.
If you choose not to provide them to me, you may mail the ORIGINALS of x-rays, EKGs, EEGs, etc. to the physician identified above.
In addition I will appear at your records room 15 calendar days from this date, as mandated by California Health & Safety Code §123110, to pick up copies of all of the records identified above which you have not forwarded to my physician. At that time I will reimburse you for your actual copying expenses, not to exceed 25 cents/page, plus your actual retrieval cost. Please have verification of your costs available at that time.
Please note that your failure to comply with this request will trigger penalties under California Health & Safety Code §§123110(f) and 123120.
I, ______________, am an attorney admitted to the California Bar, Bar #_______.
I hereby appoint _______________________ as my agent for the sole purpose of obtaining the medical records of _________________________ from ______________________ pursuant to California Evidence Code §1158, and pursuant to the "attorney's agent" exception of California Business & Professions Code §22451(b), and authorize him/her to copy said records.
I, ________________________, am or have been a patient at ______________________ HMO, and I hereby authorize and direct them to make all of my medical records in their possesion or control available for inspection and copying by the agent _________________________ , of my attorney __________________________ , as authorized by California Evidence Code §1158.
I, ______________________, attorney for ________________________, pursuant to the accompanying AUTHORIZATION FOR RELEASE OF MEDICAL RECORDS and AGENCY AGREEMENT, and to California Evidence Code §1158, hereby request that ___________________________ HMO make available ALL of the records of your enrollee _________________________ in your possession or control, 5 calendar days from this date, i.e., on ______________________, at 10AM, for copying by my agent ______________________.
This request covers all records within your system, wherever stored, including paper, electronic, telephone, fax, medical, administrative, billing, active, stored, and from all areas, including, without limitation, inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, radiology, laboratory, pathology, pharmacy, cardiology, physical therapy, neurology, etc., including any sent to you by doctors outside your system. At that time my agent will tender the $15 statutory fee.
Note that the withholding of records, on the putative grounds that they may be psychologically harmful to the patient, is not allowed under §1158, but such records may be so marked.
Please note that failure to comply will trigger penalties under California Code of Civil Procedure §1985.7, including costs of enforcement and attorney's fees.
The motion of plaintiff for a preliminary injunction to enjoin defendant to perform certain acts came on regularly before me today for hearing pursuant to an order to show cause entered on __________ [date].
__________ [name] appeared as counsel for the plaintiff and __________ [name] appeared as counsel for the defendant.
Within five (5) business days from the date of this order, defendant shall make available to plaintiff, in a place convenient to plaintiff, all of plaintiff's medical records in the possession or control of defendant, its subsidiary departments, or bailors.
This order covers all records within defendant's system, wherever stored, including paper, electronic, telephone, fax, medical, administrative, billing, active, and archived, and from all areas, including, without limitation, inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, radiology, laboratory, pathology, pharmacy, cardiology, physical therapy, neurology, etc.., including any sent to defendant by providers outside its system.
Defendant shall provide a convenient location and allow plaintiff or plaintiff's agent to make copies of any or all of those records.
Fifteen dollars ($15) plus provable costs of collecting the records shall be deducted from the costs of enforcement accruing to plaintiff.
If defendant has not complied with this order within seven (7) business days after the date of this order, it shall be fined One Hundred Dollars ($100) per day, payable to this court, from that date until it complies.

References: §123110
 §123110
 §1158
 §22451
 §1158
 §1158
 §1158
 §1985