United States Ninth Circuit

For purposes of an individual's right under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to obtain copies of his medical records at a reasonable cost-based rate, as opposed to a higher rate that may be charged to third-parties, HIPAA regulations require the reduced rate only when the individual himself requests the records, and an individual's law firm acting as his agent is not entitled to that same reduced rate.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/10/2007
• Decided 08/27/2007
• Published 08/27/2007

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ANDREW J. KLEINFELD and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM HART, Senior Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barrett S. Litt and Paul J. Estuar, Litt, Estuar, Harrison, Miller & Kitson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martin D. Bern, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee.