Willful Destruction, Alteration, or Falsification of Medical Records

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Crimes and Offenses
  4. Offenses Against Public Administration
  5. Offenses Related to Judicial and Other Proceedings
  6. Willful Destruction, Alteration, or Falsification of Medical Records

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  1. As used in this Code section, the term:
    1. "Patient" means any person who has received health care services from a provider.
    2. "Provider" means all hospitals, including public, private, osteopathic, and tuberculosis hospitals; other special care units, including podiatric facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and kidney disease treatment centers, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facilities; ambulatory surgical or obstetrical facilities; health maintenance organizations; and home health agencies. Such term shall also mean any person licensed to practice under Chapter 9, 11, 26, 34, 35, or 39 of Title 43.
    3. "Record" means a patient's health record, including, but not limited to, evaluations, diagnoses, prognoses, laboratory reports, X-rays, prescriptions, and other technical information used in assessing the patient's condition, or the pertinent portion of the record relating to a specific condition or a summary of the record.
  2. Any person who, with intent to conceal any material fact relating to a potential claim or cause of action, knowingly and willfully destroys, alters, or falsifies any record shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1981, §16-10-94.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 412, § 1.)

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1988, "under" was substituted for "Under" in the second sentence of paragraph (a)(2).


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