Scipione v. Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center

OPINION OF THE COURT

Vincent R. Balletta, Jr., J.

Application by Annette Scipione, as mother and natural guardian of Donna Marie Scipione, an infant, for an order directing the respondent to produce the entire hospital record of the infant for copying by a commercial photocopying facility, is determined as follows.

The basis for this application is section 17 of the Public Health Law which provides that a patient or parent of an infant patient is entitled to a copy of any and all of the patient’s medical records upon payment to the hospital or physician of a reasonable charge for the expenses…