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TN House Bill 495

Legislation

State: Tennessee
Signed: May 02, 2025

Effective: July 01, 2025
Chapter: 339

Summary

House Bill 495 caps the notarization fee that may be charged patients for copies of certain medical records.

Affects

Amends Section 68-11-304(a)(2)(A) of the Tennessee Code Annotated.

Changes
  1. Provides that a party responsible to a medical provider or the provider’s third-party release of information provider requesting notarization of medical records except for workers’ compensation cases must be charged a flat $20 fee for the Notary fee.
  2. Provides that for records other than those involving workers’ compensation cases reasonable fees for fulfilling a patient’s request for the patient’s own records governed by the HIPAA Act of 1996 and the HITECH Act and those acts' implementing regulations, must, if notarization is requested, be charged a flat $20 for the Notary fee.
Analysis

The sponsor of House Bill 495 testified in committee that when patients request copies of their medical records, a third party outsourced to service the request can charge patients up to thousands of dollars for the copies. The bill largely deals with capping fees for providing copies of electronic medical records, but it also caps the notarization fee of any record, except for workers’ compensation cases, that is requested to be notarized at $20. The fee must be charged as a flat fee.

Read House Bill 495.

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