§ 16-39-9-4 — Cost adjustments by department

(a) As used in this section, "department" refers
to the department of insurance created by IC 27-1-1-1.
(b) The department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to set the
amounts that may be charged for copying and providing paper copies
of medical records under this chapter.
(c) In adopting rules under this section, the department shall
consider the following factors relating to the costs of copying medical
records:
(1) The following labor costs:
(A) Verification of requests.
(B) Logging requests.
(C) Retrieval.
(D) Copying.
(E) Refiling.
(2) Software costs for logging requests.
(3) Expense costs for copying.
(4) Capital costs for copying.
(5) Billing and bad debt expenses.
(6) Space costs.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.102-1994, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.173-2007, SEC.2; P.L.215-2025, SEC.28.