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Committee advances bill to waive one-time charge for disability applicants' medical records
Summary
The House Health and Welfare Committee voted to send Senate Bill 1087 (as amended) to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill would require providers or their contractors to provide one free copy of electronic medical records for people applying for Social Security disability claims.
Representative Luke Wheeler, the House carrier, summarized Senate Bill 1087 (as amended) and said it reflected several years of work by Senator Ricks to ease access to medical records for disability applicants.
"What this bill does is it says, someone can get their medical records at no cost, one time, for this type of a claim," Representative Wheeler said. He said the bill targets electronic records obtained for Social Security disability applications and is narrower than prior drafts that attempted to cap per‑page fees.
Wheeler and others said the measure…
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