Relates to access to recorded personal medical information by individuals; allows individuals access to their recorded personal medical records and limits any insurance institution, agent or insurance-support organization from charging more than one dollar per page to cover the costs incurred in providing a copy of such information to the individual.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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398
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
PAULIN, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to access to recorded
personal medical information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 323 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 323. Access to personal medical information. If an individual, after
4 proper identification, submits a written request to an insurance insti-
5 tution, agent, or insurance-support organization for access to recorded
6 personal medical information about the individual which information is
7 reasonably described by the individual, the insurance institution, agent
8 or insurance-support organization may charge a reasonable fee, not to
9 exceed one dollar per page, to be paid by the person making such request
10 to cover the costs incurred in providing a copy of the recorded personal
11 medical information to such individual.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
13 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01932-01-9
