In an apparent case of first impression, an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge has ruled that a Pittsburgh hospital system may have to base its charges for providing copies of medical records to a plaintiffs’ law firm on actual costs, not the maximum charge spelled out under state law.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. denied University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s preliminary objections to a class action complaint by plaintiffs law firms alleging that UPMC violated the state Medical Records Act by charging plaintiffs law firms for copies of medical charts and records in excess of the actual costs of obtaining those records but in accordance with the Act’s pricing schedule. Wettick issued his opinion Feb. 4 in Wayne M. Chiurazzi Law Inc. v. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside.
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