95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0778

 

Introduced 2/7/2007, by Rep. Rich Brauer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 25/50   from Ch. 111, par. 2350

    Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Provides that a dentist shall be entitled to reasonable reimbursement for the cost of reproducing patient records, which shall not exceed specified costs (rather than the cost allowed under a certain provision of the Code of Civil Procedure).


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended by
5 changing Section 50 as follows:
 
6     (225 ILCS 25/50)  (from Ch. 111, par. 2350)
7     (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
8     Sec. 50. Patient Records. Every dentist shall make a record
9 of all dental work performed for each patient. The record shall
10 be made in a manner and in sufficient detail that it may be
11 used for identification purposes.
12     Dental records required by this Section shall be maintained
13 for 10 years. Dental records required to be maintained under
14 this Section, or copies of those dental records, shall be made
15 available upon request to the patient or the patient's
16 guardian. A dentist shall be entitled to reasonable
17 reimbursement for the cost of reproducing these records, which
18 shall not exceed a $20 handling charge for processing the
19 request for copies, and 75 cents per page for the first through
20 25th pages, 50 cents per page for the 26th through 50th pages,
21 and 25 cents per page for all pages in excess of 50 (except
22 that the charge shall not exceed $1.25 per page for any copies
23 made from microfiche or microfilm), and actual shipping costs

 

 

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1 the cost allowed under Section 8-2003 of the Code of Civil
2 Procedure.
3 (Source: P.A. 94-409, eff. 12-31-05.)