University Medical Center New Orleans Fax Number — Send Medical Records and Release Requests

Yes — HIPAA permits faxing protected health information when the channel is secure. HIPAA turns on using a compliant, encrypted service rather than a public one. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to University Medical Center New Orleans than a public machine. Compliance is about how the pages travel, not only where they land at University Medical Center New Orleans.

The current line comes from University Medical Center New Orleans directly, since department numbers change. Use University Medical Center New Orleans's release-of-information form, which names where to send the authorization. A quick check beats faxing PHI to a number that has moved. A confirmed line beats a guessed one on documents this sensitive.

No. Documents go to different fax lines at University Medical Center New Orleans depending on the office. What you send to Health Information Management will not reach the physician referral office. Verify the current fax for the physician referral office or your target department first. Which line is right depends on the office, not the hospital as a whole.

Include the three identifiers staff use to match a chart: full name, date of birth, and medical record number. On the cover sheet, name Health Information Management or the receiving clinic so it lands with the right team. A delivery confirmation then tells you the fax reached University Medical Center New Orleans. The identifiers matter as much as the records themselves.

A hospital-to-hospital transfer to University Medical Center New Orleans does go by fax. Route it to the accepting service that will take the patient. Confirm the transfer fax with University Medical Center New Orleans and include the clinical summary with the orders. Send the whole packet as one job so nothing arrives split. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.