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by Nadya 2949 days ago
HIPAA allows health care providers to disclose medical records in response to a court order as long as the order specifies the scope of the records required to be disclosed and is signed by a judge.
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Court order != Filing Suit
The docket persists beyond the filing and can have records attached to it under seal by order. Nadya did not draw the equivalence you are correcting.