"Complete Medical Records" means all paper and electronic records that may be useful in determining the validity of charges contained in a patient's itemized hospital bill. Such records include, but are not limited to, the following items:

Admission and Discharge Summaries
Ambulatory Surgery Reports
Anesthesia Records
Anesthesiology Reports
Blood Product Requisitions
Cardiology Reports
Clinical Pathway Reports
Consultation Reports
Critical Care Reports
Diagnosis and Summary Reports
EKG/ECG Reports and/or Strips
Emergency Department Reports
Financial Responsibility Forms
Flow Sheets
Intake & Output Reports
Intensive Care Unit Reports
Intraoperative Records
Laboratory Reports
Medication Administration Records
Nuclear Medicine Reports
Nursing Diagnosis Reports
Nursing Interventions/Medical Orders
Nurses Notes
Occupational Therapy Reports
Operative Reports
Order Sheets (a.k.a. Physicians' Order Sheets or Doctors' Order Sheets)
Pathology and Cytopathology Reports
Patient History and Physical Reports
Perioperative Nursing Documentation
Physical Therapy Reports
Post Anesthesia Care Unit Reports
Post Operative Reports
Preadmission Testing Reports
Procedure Reports
Progress Notes, including Final Progress Note
Radiology Reports
Rehabilitation Reports
Respiratory Care Reports
Surgery Reports
Transfusion Records
Ultrasound Reports

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