State by State Guide to Fees for Medical Record Copies
This isn’t an all inclusive list by any means and fair warning, there isn’t a date reflecting when it was most recently updated… but this is a very handy state by state guide reflecting the allowable charges for medical records and certainly can provide you with a starting point as it includes the statute or code etc that the information came from
http://www.medefile.com/faq/state-copy-charges/
Florida
Florida Statutes 395.3025
Regarding records from hospitals:
- Exclusive charge for copies may include sales tax and actual postage
- Non-paper records not to exceed $2.00 per page
- Paper records not to exceed $1.00 per page
- An additional $1.00 may be charged for each year of records requested
Florida Statutes 395.301, Itemized Patient Bill
- The facility may not charge the patient for making such verification records available; however, the facility may charge its usual fee for providing copies of records as specified in s. 395.3025.
Rule 64B8-10.003, Florida Administrative Code
Regarding records from physicians:
- No more than $1.00 per page for the first 25 pages of written material
- $.25 for each additional page
- Actual cost of reproducing nonwritten records such as x-rays
- “Recognizing that patient access to medical records is important and necessary to assure continuity of patient care, the Board of Medicine urges physicians to provide their patients a copy of their medical records, upon request, without cost, especially when the patient is economically disadvantaged.”