California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 5.7 — Physical TherapyArticle 2 — Scope of Regulation and ExemptionsSection 2620.7
(a) Patient records shall be documented as required in regulations promulgated by the board.
(b) Patient records shall be maintained for a period of no less than seven years following the discharge of the patient, except that the records of unemancipated minors shall be maintained at least one year after the minor has reached 18 years of age, and not in any case less than seven years.
Notes
Requires patient records to be documented as board regulations require and maintained for at least seven years after discharge. Requires records of an unemancipated minor to be kept at least one year after the minor reaches age 18 and, in every case, for no less than seven years.
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