REFERENCE TITLE: failure to maintain medical records State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2582 Introduced by Representative Bliss AN ACT Amending title 13, chapter 37, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13-3733; relating to Medical records. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
REFERENCE TITLE: failure to maintain medical records
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HB 2582
Introduced by Representative Bliss
REFERENCE TITLE: failure to maintain medical records
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
HB 2582
Introduced by
Representative Bliss
AN ACT
Amending title 13, chapter 37, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13-3733; relating to Medical records.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 13, chapter 37, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-3733, to read: START_STATUTE13-3733. Failure to maintain adequate records; intentional destruction of records; classification A. Notwithstanding title 11, chapter 2, article 7 or title 36, chapter 29, A person commits failure to maintain adequate records if, when submitting a claim for or receiving payment for goods or services pursuant to title 11, chapter 2, article 7 or title 36, chapter 29, the person does either of the following: 1. knowingly fails to maintain those records that are necessary to fully disclose the nature of the goods or services for which a claim was submitted or payment was received or those records that are necessary to fully disclose all income and expenditures on which rates of payment were based for at least five years. 2. Knowingly fails to report the destruction of those records that are necessary to fully disclose the nature of the goods or services for which a claim was submitted or payment was received or those records that are necessary to fully disclose all income and expenditures on which rates of payment were based. B. A person who violates subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. A person who violates subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 13, chapter 37, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-3733, to read:
START_STATUTE13-3733. Failure to maintain adequate records; intentional destruction of records; classification
A. Notwithstanding title 11, chapter 2, article 7 or title 36, chapter 29, A person commits failure to maintain adequate records if, when submitting a claim for or receiving payment for goods or services pursuant to title 11, chapter 2, article 7 or title 36, chapter 29, the person does either of the following:
1. knowingly fails to maintain those records that are necessary to fully disclose the nature of the goods or services for which a claim was submitted or payment was received or those records that are necessary to fully disclose all income and expenditures on which rates of payment were based for at least five years.
2. Knowingly fails to report the destruction of those records that are necessary to fully disclose the nature of the goods or services for which a claim was submitted or payment was received or those records that are necessary to fully disclose all income and expenditures on which rates of payment were based.
B. A person who violates subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. A person who violates subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE