2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 65. - PUBLIC HEALTH
Article 49. - HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
65-4971 Same; copies of health care records; authorization; health care provider withholding; fees.

65-4971. Same; copies of health care records; authorization; health care provider withholding; fees. (a) Subject to applicable law, copies of health care records shall be furnished to a patient, a patient's authorized representative or any other person or entity authorized by law to obtain or reproduce such records, within 30 days of the receipt of the authorization, or the health care provider shall notify the patient or the patient's authorized representative of the reasons why copies are not available. A health care provider may withhold copies of health care records if the health care provider reasonably believes that providing copies of the requested records will cause substantial harm to the patient or another person. Health care providers may condition the furnishing of the patient's health care records to the patient, the patient's authorized representative or any other person or entity authorized by law to obtain or reproduce such records, upon the payment of charges not to exceed a $15 fee for the cost of supplies and labor; and for copies of health care records routinely duplicated on a standard photocopy machine, $.50 per page for the first 250 pages and $.35 per page for additional pages. Providers may charge for the reasonable cost of all duplications of health care record information which cannot be routinely duplicated on a standard photocopy machine.

(b) On January 1, 2004, and annually thereafter, the fees set forth in subsection (a) shall be increased by the secretary of labor in accordance with the all-items consumer price index published by the United States department of labor.