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House advances bill making willful falsification of medical records a crime; sponsor says it can be a Class H felony
Summary
House Bill 123, as described on the floor, targets willful destruction, alteration, falsification or omission from a medical record intended to conceal medical error, abuse, neglect or services causing serious injury or death; sponsor said it can be a Class H felony when injury results. The bill passed and was sent to the Senate.
House Bill 123, titled criminal falsification of medical records, was debated on the House floor April 8 and passed on third reading, advancing to the Senate.
Representative Pless introduced the bill and Representative Blass, who spoke in detail on its elements, said the measure is intended to cover "willful destruction, alteration, falsification of, or willful omission of information from a medical record" when done to conceal the commission of a medical error, abuse, neglect or to hide services that caused a serious injury or death. Blass told…
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