No kidding. Every time I go into a doctor's or dentist's office and am asked to read and sign the patient privacy notice I ask if they have any plans to give my records to the state. I'm always greeted with a horrified "No!"
As someone who has been in Pain Management since 1996, my records are sent to Richond for the Dinosaurs on the Medical Review Board to read, in case they decide to prosecute my Doctor for prescribing the drugs I take.
It has frosted me no end that he has to do this, and I've written numerous letters to the antiquated idjits in Richmond complaining at how they punish Doctors who understand the pain that people with joint and back problems can be in but why does that make MY records an open book to the jerks?
I feel like my sense of privacy has been violated - and that is why, my friends, they ask you to sign those forms. So that if a Medical Review Board for their state asks for the records, they can just turn them over. They don't "intend" to - but they sure do, when asked.