Assembly Actions -
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Jun 01, 2016 |
referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate |
May 23, 2016 |
ordered to third reading cal.949 committee discharged and committed to rules |
Jan 06, 2016 |
referred to health returned to senate died in assembly |
Jun 15, 2015 |
referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate |
Jun 08, 2015 |
ordered to third reading cal.1340 committee discharged and committed to rules |
Jan 07, 2015 |
referred to health |
Senate Bill S421
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
2015-S421 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A1474
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง17 & 18, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
S6848, A9022
2017-2018: S1294, A1925
2019-2020: A4120
2021-2022: A4924
2023-2024: A2667
2015-S421 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S421 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the reasonable charge for electronic copies of medical records and patient information PURPOSE : This legislation establishes the reasonable charge for electronic copies of medical records and patient information. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Both section 1 and 2, as amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1998, are amended to add that the reasonable charge for copies provided in an electronic format shall be the lesser of either seventy-five cents per page or a total of one hundred dollars. JUSTIFICATION : In today's technology, we are still required to pay health care providers per page printed of medical records, costing from hundreds to several thousand dollars, when these records are simply copied onto a CD and sent to the patient to be printed on their own. Therefore, the fees imposed when a patient requests an electronic version of their medical records should not reflect any fee for printing them.
2015-S421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 421 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the reasonable charge for electronic copies of medical records and patient information THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 17 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: Upon the written request of any competent patient, parent or guardian of an infant, a guardian appointed pursuant to article eighty-one of the mental hygiene law, or conservator of a conservatee, an examining, consulting or treating physician or hospital must release and deliver, exclusive of personal notes of the said physician or hospital, copies of all x-rays, medical records and test records including all laboratory tests regarding that patient to any other designated physician or hospi- tal provided, however, that such records concerning the treatment of an infant patient for venereal disease or the performance of an abortion operation upon such infant patient shall not be released or in any manner be made available to the parent or guardian of such infant, and provided, further, that original mammograms, rather than copies thereof, shall be released and delivered. Either the physician or hospital incur- ring the expense of providing copies of x-rays, medical records and test records including all laboratory tests pursuant to the provisions of this section may impose a reasonable charge to be paid by the person requesting the release and deliverance of such records as reimbursement for such expenses, provided, however, that the physician or hospital may not impose a charge for copying an original mammogram when the original has been released or delivered to any competent patient, parent or guar- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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