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California Patients Urged to Get Records Sun Feb 2, 4:41 PM ET LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of thousands of Southern Californians are in danger of having their medical records destroyed because a company says it is no longer being paid to store them. Iron Mountain has been housing the records of KPC Medical Management, which closed its clinics in 2000 and left behind 8 million medical documents. The Boston company has housed the records since August 2001. It was paid to store them for one year and distribute them to patients who requested them. But because the company has not received more money, officials have been considering whether to destroy the documents. After state regulators ordered the records to be made available for cancer patients and others currently receiving treatment, insurance companies put up about $2 million for distribution and storage. But the money ran out last summer...
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