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Committee approves 10‑year medical‑records retention requirement for providers
Summary
House Bill 10‑67 would require health care providers to retain records for at least 10 years; sponsor framed the bill as a response to a constituent's inability to obtain records after a provider closed and records went into paid storage that later became inaccessible.
House Bill 10‑67, which would require health care providers to retain patient records for at least 10 years, passed the Public Health Committee after discussion about storage, notice to patients and access to electronic records.
Representative Bangor, the bill sponsor, said the measure grew from a constituent case in which a retired veteran could not obtain medical…
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