Request your medical records from UAB Medicine
UAB Medicine lets you view and download parts of your record in the myUABMedicine portal. For a full copy, you submit a request to the Release of Information office.
How UAB Medicine handles record requests
The fastest path is usually the myUABMedicine patient portal, where you can view and download a lot of your record yourself. For a full or formal copy, use the letter below.
UAB Health Information Management — Release of Information Office
- 1201 11th Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35205
- Fax
- 205-930-6721
- Phone
- 205-930-7724
UAB says it has 30 days to respond under HIPAA and tries to send records sooner.
There is no cost for patients to get their own records, or to have records sent to another provider for continuity of care.
UAB Medicine's official records page →
Details can change — confirm the destination on the official page before you mail anything.
Your UAB Medicine records-request letter
UAB Medicine records requests — common questions
- How do I request my medical records from UAB Medicine?
- UAB Medicine lets you view and download parts of your record in the myUABMedicine portal. For a full copy, you submit a request to the Release of Information office.
- How long does UAB Medicine take to send records?
- UAB says it has 30 days to respond under HIPAA and tries to send records sooner. Under HIPAA’s right of access (45 CFR § 164.524), they must act within 30 days, with one possible 30-day extension.
- Does UAB Medicine charge for medical records?
- There is no cost for patients to get their own records, or to have records sent to another provider for continuity of care. HIPAA limits any fee to a reasonable, cost-based charge for copying and postage.
- Is this records-request letter free?
- Yes. The generator builds a HIPAA records-request letter you can download and print for free. Nothing you type is saved or sent to anyone but you.
What we will never do with your records
This generator runs without an account, and KeptWell itself makes the same promises to every family, regardless of plan or price.
- We won't sell your data.
- Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to insurers, not to pharma, not to anyone, in any form, ever.
- We won't train AI models on your records.
- Anthropic (whose Claude model powers KeptWell) is contractually prohibited from training on anything we send them, under a signed Business Associate Agreement.
- We won't lock you in.
- You can export everything in your circle as a ZIP at any time. Cancellation is one click.
Once UAB Medicine sends your records, give them a home.
They usually arrive as a stack of PDFs or a disc. Upload them to KeptWell and it reads each one, organizes everything by type and date, and lets your whole family ask questions about it. The medical record organizer that does the organizing. Free today.
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