Statutory penalties for the charges associated with those records could total at least $64 million. The plaintiff filed a motion to remand, which the District Court granted.ĬIOX claimed it had serviced approximately 80,000 requests for records made to health care providers in West Virginia by patients or their attorneys during the relevant time period, which resulted in invoices totaling more than $7,000,000 and payments in excess of $5,500,000. (“Medi-Copy”) and CIOX Health, LLC (“CIOX”) “fulfilled all or a substantial portion of the medical records requests that were processed for the Raleigh General facility located in Beckley, West Virginia.”ĬIOX removed the action to federal court pursuant to CAFA. The plaintiff asserted that defendants Medi-Copy Services, Inc.
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She alleged she was charged excessive fees for her medical records in violation of West Virginia Code § 16-29-1. The plaintiff was a patient at Raleigh General Hospital, LLC (“Raleigh General”), a defendant in the suit. The plaintiff brought a putative class action in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County alleging that the defendants overcharged her and other similarly situated patients for copies of medical records in violation of West Virginia law.
In this action, a District Court in West Virginia granted the plaintiff’s motion to remand, reasoning that a complaint should be read as a whole to determine membership of a putative class for the purpose of determining whether the amount in controversy exceeds the CAFA minimum. Hamilton v Raleigh General Hospital LLC, 2017 WL 833050 (S.D.W.V.
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