For a practice that is closing, being sold, relocating or whose physician is retiring. Prepared 21 September 2026.
How long records must be kept
Adult patients
Idaho sets NO retention period. IDAPA 24.33.01, the Board of Medicine's rules, were searched in full and contain neither a retention period nor a closure procedure.
Patients who were minors
None set by Idaho law.
Clock starts
Not applicable - no state clock exists.
Also
The operative floors are HIPAA's 6 years and the malpractice limitation period.
Also
What does survive a closure: failing to transfer records to another provider when the patient or their legal representative asks is grounds for discipline.
Before you close — what this state requires
The one duty that survives a closing practice is the disciplinary one: failing to TRANSFER records to another provider when the patient or their designated representative asks is grounds for discipline. A closed practice with no reachable custodian cannot comply, so the exposure continues after the doors shut.
Where a records custodian fits
Idaho law addresses a records custodian directly in the items above. Morgan Records Management performs this role; the duties below are the ones that transfer to, or must be evidenced by, whoever holds the records.
The one duty that survives a closing practice is the disciplinary one: failing to TRANSFER records to another provider when the patient or their designated representative asks is grounds for discipline. A closed practice with no reachable custodian cannot comply, so the exposure continues after the doors shut.
What Idaho does not require
Stated so nobody infers a duty that is not there.
No affirmative closure duty exists in IDAPA 24.33.01 - confirmed by full-text search, not inferred from absence of search results.
Where this comes from
IDAPA 24.33.01 (Board of Medicine) https://dopl.idaho.gov/bom/bom-statutes-rules-and-guidance/
Read this before you act on it. Every statement above was taken from the state's own published rule or statute and is quoted or closely paraphrased from it. It is a working checklist, not legal advice, and it is a snapshot: retention periods change, and several states adjust their copying fees every year. Confirm the current text with the source listed above, or with your attorney, before you rely on a date or a dollar figure.
Figures stated as of: Verified September 2026
Prepared by Morgan Records Management for Idaho. Checklist built 21 September 2026.