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How long must tissue specimens be kept?

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How long must tissue specimens be kept?

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The Healing Arts Act and related regulations are silent with regard to how long tissue specimens must be kept. We only have the regulation requiring that patient records be maintained for ten years. However, if the clinic has its own laboratory then you may wish to check with the regulatory agency for the lab. Question: A physician has left a practice here in Wichita (office sharing arrangement). The physician wants all patient files for “her” patients. We believe that the files belong to the patients and should only be transferred after the patient has determined who she wants as her treating physician in the future. The physician claims that only she has a physician-patient relationship with the patients and therefore only she should contact them about the selection of their treating physician following her separation from the practice (she has not yet established a new location that we are aware of so many of her patients continue to contact the practice group). The reality is that

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