Bill Text: MS HB47 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Hospital records; delete provision requiring notice before retiring X-ray film or graphic data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee [HB47 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB47-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services; Judiciary A
By: Representative Bain
House Bill 47
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-9-69, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DELETE THE PROVISION REQUIRING HOSPITALS TO PROVIDE NOTICE TO PATIENTS OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR INTENT TO RETIRE X-RAY FILM OR GRAPHIC DATA AND THE RIGHT OF PATIENTS TO REQUEST THAT THE HOSPITAL MAINTAIN THE X-RAY FILM OR GRAPHIC DATA; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-9-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-9-69. (1) Hospital records shall be retained, preserved and properly stored by hospitals for such periods of reasonable duration as may be prescribed in rules and regulations adopted by the licensing agency. Such rules and regulations may provide for different periods of such retention for the various constituent parts of any hospital records, and such rules and regulations may require that an abstract be made of pertinent data from any hospital records that may be retired as provided herein. Such rules and regulations may also provide for different periods of such retention for the various injuries, diseases, infirmities or conditions primarily causing or associated with the hospitalization. However, complete hospital records shall be retained for a period after discharge of the patient of at least (a) seven (7) years in cases of patients discharged at death, except as may be otherwise hereinafter provided; (b) ten (10) years in cases of adult patients of sound mind at the time of discharge, except as may be otherwise hereinafter provided; (c) for the period of minority or other known disability of the patient plus seven (7) additional years, but not to exceed twenty-eight (28) years, in cases of patients under disability of minority or otherwise; or (d) for the period of minority or other known disability of any survivors hereinafter mentioned plus seven (7) additional years, but not to exceed twenty-eight (28) years, in all cases where the patient was discharged at death, or is known by the hospital to have died within thirty (30) days after discharge, and the hospital knows or has reason to believe that such patient or former patient left one or more survivors under disability of minority or otherwise who are or are claimed to be entitled to damages for wrongful death of the patient under Section 11-7-13, or laws amendatory thereof. Upon the expiration of the applicable period of retention, any hospital may retire the hospital record.
(2) X-ray film and any
other graphic data may be retired four (4) years after the date of exposure of
the X-ray film or creation of the graphic data if the written and signed
findings of a radiologist who has read such X-ray film or other professional
who has interpreted such graphic data are retained for the same period as other
hospital records under the preceding subsection. * * *
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
