SB 400 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2947
05/08
SENATE BILL 400
AN ACT relative to patient access to medical records.
SPONSORS: Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill reduces the maximum cost for medical records and requires them to be provided electronically upon request.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2947
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to patient access to medical records.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Medical Records. Amend RSA 332-I:1, I to read as follows:
I. All medical information contained in the medical records in the possession of any health care provider shall be deemed to be the property of the patient. The patient shall be entitled to a copy of such records upon request. [The charge for the copying of a patient's medical records shall not exceed $15 for the first 30 pages or $.50 per page, whichever is greater; provided, that copies of filmed records such as radiograms, x-rays, and sonograms shall be copied at a reasonable cost.] The charge for paper copies of records shall not exceed $5 for the first page and 45¢ for each additional page, up to a maximum of $250 for the entire medical record. Copies of records shall be provided electronically upon request at no cost.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.