Ventura v. Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center

In a proceeding to obtain disclosure of medical records pursuant to Public Health Law § 17, petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Durante, J.), dated July 19, 1984, which directed her to pay the respondent *438hospital the fees demanded by it in order to obtain a copy of the decedent’s hospital records.

Order modified, on the facts, by adding thereto a provision giving petitioner the option of paying the respondent hospital its $15 "handling fee” and copying the records at the hospital on a photocopying machine to be supplied by her. As so modified, order affirmed,…