KS HB2683

Establishes specific fee schedules effective July 1, 2026, for healthcare providers furnishing patient records, including $0.60 per page for copying, up to $25 for search and retrieval labor, postage costs, and a certification/notary fee not to exceed $2.00

Caps electronic record delivery at the lesser of the search, retrieval, and copying fees or $188.88, when the requester asks for electronic delivery and the provider stores and can deliver records electronically

Requires annual adjustment of fees beginning July 1, 2027, based on the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, with the Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment publishing adjusted fees in the Kansas Register each year

Creates a framework for releasing a deceased patient's healthcare records to specified individuals in priority order — surviving spouse first, then trustee, adult child, parent, adult sibling, guardian/conservator, or guardian ad litem of the deceased's minor child — provided the decedent did not object to disclosure in writing prior to death

Provides that good-faith transfer of patient records shields healthcare providers from liability, and allows patients, authorized representatives, or other authorized parties to bring legal action to enforce record production, with courts awarding costs and free records if noncompliance is found to be without just cause