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DOCTORS TO MAINTAIN CONFIDENTIALITY OF PATIENT’S MEDICAL RECORD
DOCTORS TO MAINTAIN CONFIDENTIALITY OF PATIENT’S MEDICAL RECORD
Andhra Pradesh State
Consumer Redressal Commission has asked doctors and hospitals not to share patient information to insurance
companies unless required by the court of law .Maintaining confidentiality of a
patient’s medical aspects is not only the duty of a doctor but also a
constitutional obligation. Court observed that while selling the policies, the
insurance companies do not take care as to whether the intending purchaser is
eligible for the policy they in fact lure them through agents and sell policies
only to improve their financial top line .But when they come to settlement of
claims, they engage in all sorts of exercise, suspecting bona fides and in turn
approach doctors /hospital for the records during their so called investigation.
It was a home loan case against SBI RIN Raksha home loan scheme Claim by wife of deceased Sheshgiri Rao rejected/denied
on the ground of suppressing facts based on the ground of investigation engaged
by SBI Insurance Ltd.
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