When Social Security works up a claim for disability benefits, it obtains medical records from the claimant’s health care providers. If those records are supplied electronically, SSA will pay $15 for the records:
SUMMARY: We have set $15 as the reasonable reimbursement to non-Federal medical providers for their costs in supplying medical records through health IT [information technology] in response to a request. We will pay the uniform national rate to a medical provider that satisfies a medical records request through health IT. We are establishing this uniform national rate under our authority in sections 205(a), 223(d)(5)(A) and 1631(e) of the Social Security Act (Act).
