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Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 18.05.040 AS 47.32.010 AS 47.32.030 Editor’s note: A copy of the federal Centers for Disease Control guidelines may be obtained from Centers for Disease Control, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. 7 AAC 12.770. Medical record service. (a) Each facility, with the exception of home health agencies, hospice agencies, intermediate care facilities for individuals with an intellectual disability or related condition, and birth centers, must have a medical record service that complies with the applicable provisions of this section. A frontier extended stay clinic must comply with (b), (d), (g), and (i) — (k) of this section in addition to the requirements of 7 AAC 12.483. (b) A facility must keep records on all patients admitted or accepted for treatment. The medical records, including x-ray films, are the property of the facility and are maintained for the benefit of the patients, the medical staff, and the facility. Medical records are subject to the requirements of AS 18.05.042, 7 AAC 43.030, and 7 AAC 43.032. This section does not affect other statutory or regulatory requirements regarding access to, use of, disclosure of, confidentiality of, or retention of record contents, or regarding maintenance of health information in patients’ records by health care providers. A facility must maintain originals or accurate reproductions of the contents of the originals of all records, including x-rays, consultation reports, and laboratory reports, in a form that is legible and readily available

(1) upon request, to the attending physician or other practitioner responsible for treatment, a member of the facility’s medical staff, or a representative of the department; and

(2) upon the patient’s written request, to another practitioner. (c) Each in-patient medical record must include, as appropriate

(1) an identification sheet which includes the

(A) patient’s name;

(B) medical record number;

(C) patient’s address on admission;