Montana
Medical Records Custodian & Retention Laws
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Montana Medical Record Retention Law:
Administrative Rules of Montana, Board of Medical Examiners chapter 24.156 - needs a browser session
- Adult patients: UNRESOLVED - do not state a Montana period from this checklist.
- Patients who were minors: Unresolved.
- The retention period runs from: Unresolved.
- ARM 24.126.411 'Patient Records Retention' is the CHIROPRACTOR rule (7 years for adults; for minors 7 years or 1 year past 18). Secondary sites repeating '7 years for physicians' appear to be quoting that chiropractic rule.
- The '10 years following discharge or death' figure that circulates for Montana uses facility wording and is not a physician rule.
- rules.mt.gov serves no text to automated tools and the Board of Medical Examiners rules PDF would not parse.
If you are closing, selling or relocating your practice Montana sets out what has to happen to patient records. The points below are taken from the source above.
- NOT ESTABLISHED FROM A PRIMARY SOURCE. rules.mt.gov is a JavaScript application that returns an eleven-character body ('Montana SOS') to every automated request, including the Board of Medical Examiners chapter 24.156 pages and the 'PATIENT RECORDS RETENTION' and 'PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS AND RECORDKEEPING' rules by name.
- Montana's retention verdict is already HELD for the same reason. One browser session at rules.mt.gov chapter 24.156 clears both.
Montana closing-practice checklist
The same requirements as a checklist you can print and work through, with the retention periods, the notice each rule requires and what you may charge for copies.
Open the Montana checklist →
Cost
No state copying-fee schedule was located for Montana. Charges should be reasonable and cost-based.
NOT CONFIRMED - see above
This page summarises the source above and is not legal advice. Retention periods change and several states adjust their copying fees every year, so confirm the current text before you rely on a date or a figure.