Vermont
Medical Records Custodian & Retention Laws
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Vermont Medical Record Retention Law:
Vermont Board of Medical Practice Rule
- Adult patients: Vermont sets NO retention period. The Board of Medical Practice Rule was downloaded and searched in full - 74 pages - and contains none.
- Patients who were minors: None set by Vermont law.
- The retention period runs from: Not applicable - no state clock exists.
- The only retention duty in the Board's rules is 4 years for CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION documentation, which is not a patient record.
- The operative floors are HIPAA's 6 years and the malpractice limitation period.
- Failing to make records promptly available to the patient, their representative or succeeding health care professionals on proper written request is unprofessional conduct - and that outlasts the practice.
If you are closing, selling or relocating your practice Vermont sets out what has to happen to patient records. The points below are taken from the source above.
- 26 V.S.A. 1354: failing to make records promptly available to SUCCEEDING HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS on proper written request is unprofessional conduct - which survives the practice closing and is the hook that makes an accessible custodian arrangement matter in Vermont.
- No affirmative closure-notice or custodian duty located in Vermont law or the Board rules.
Vermont 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 Vermont checklist →
Cost
No state copying-fee schedule was located for Vermont. Charges should be reasonable and cost-based.
Verified September 2026
Also referred to above
26 V.S.A. s.1354 (unprofessional conduct - records availability)
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.