Practice Management Alert
Reader Questions:
Beware Patient Medical Record Cost Regulations
Published on Wed Aug 16, 2023
Question: Can my practice charge patients for copies of their medical records? Or do we charge their respective insurance carrier? New York Subscriber Answer: Practices can charge patients for copies of their medical records. In New York, specifically, physicians and institutions can charge patients $0.75 per page for paper records and “actual reproduction cost” for X-rays or other radiographic materials, according to the New York Department of Health (see more, here www.health.ny.gov/publications/1443). Billing insurance for patient medical record sharing would be unusual; you can look in the payer contracts to see what each individual carrier says about copies of medical records.
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