Legal Opinion
Thornburg v. EL CENTRO REGIONAL MED. CENTER
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 22, 2006No. D047004PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BENKE, J.
Plaintiff and appellant Patience Thornburg was a patient at defendant and respondent El Centro Regional Medical Center (El Centro) and in April 2002 Thornburg’s attorneys asked El Centro for a copy of her medical records. El Centro provided Thornburg’s attorneys with the medical records, but charged them $2 a page.
In general under Evidence Code 1 section 1158 a medical care provider, such as El Centro, may charge a patient no more than 10 cents a page for copies of medical records. Thornburg brought a class action lawsuit against El Centro in which she alleged the hospital…
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