HIPAA request

Under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), you may request that your birth record be corrected.  While your birth hospital may decline your request, they will have to hassle with processing it (and maybe even replying to it).  Your HIPAA request will give the hospital negative feedback on circumcision and it will only cost you a 42-cent stamp and 20 minutes of your time.  You don't have to change the words of the request at all - just copy-and-paste the text below into your favorite word processor, fill in your name, the name of your hospital, etc., print it, and send it in.  You may need to call your old hospital to confirm the address to where HIPAA requests should be sent.

Begin Sample Letter

<<DATE>>

Dear Medical Records Librarian of <<NAME OF HOSPITAL>>,

I specifically invoke my rights under HIPAA and request that you correct my birth record. I was circumcised against my will on or about <<YOUR DATE OF BIRTH>> at your facility and by a doctor with privileges granted by the hospital.

Please insert the following correction in my medical record, in its entirety:

  1. I did not consent to have my erogenous tissue amputated.
  2. If the obstetrician or pediatrician diagnosed "phimosis, recommendation: circumcision" or used any billing code that alleges a similar condition, I ask that my birth record reflect that no such condition could possibly exist for a newborn, as all males at birth have a foreskin that adheres naturally to the glans.
  3. Ripping open the natural protective membrane, my balano-preputial lamina, and exposing my glans prematurely and amputating half my natural sheath and all my Taylor's ridged band was done without medical need or necessity. Such exposure sexually desensitized me.
  4. I ask that my medical record reflect whether my amputation was performed with or without anesthesia.
  5. I ask that my medical record also reflect whether my amputation was performed with or without any pathology or histology report suggesting that my infant tissue was in any way diseased, necrotic, or mutated or had any condition that would not have responded to treatment by more conservative care.
  6. I ask specifically whether my amputated tissue was transferred in any way: sold, bartered, donated, or used for any research or clinical purpose. I request that my birth record reflect that I personally never received any compensation whatsoever for my tissue. I request a refund of the amount your institution received for my tissue, or its market value, with statutory interest to date.
  7. I request a courtesy copy of my medical record, once it has been amended.

Sincerely,

<<YOUR NAME>>
<<YOUR ADDRESS>>

Cc: <<NAME OF HOSPITAL>> Legal Department

End Sample Letter


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