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Copying Charges
How much can I charge for medical records in Tennessee?
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The party requesting the patient's records is responsible to the provider for the reasonable costs of copying and mailing such patient's records. For other than records involving workers' compensation cases, such reasonable costs shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) for medical records forty (40) pages or less in length and twenty-five cents (25›) per page for each page copied after the first forty (40) pages and the actual cost of mailing.
Reference:
Tennessee Code/TITLE 63 PROFESSIONS OF THE HEALING ARTS/CHAPTER 2
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