Montana Code 50-16-530. Disclosure without patient’s authorization
50-16-530. Disclosure without patient‘s authorization. A health care provider may disclose health care information about a patient without the patient’s authorization if the disclosure is:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-16-530
- Health care: means any care, service, or procedure provided by a health care provider, including medical or psychological diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, advice, or other services that affect the structure or any function of the human body. See Montana Code 50-16-504
- Health care facility: means a hospital, clinic, nursing home, laboratory, office, or similar place where a health care provider provides health care to patients. See Montana Code 50-16-504
- Health care information: means any information, whether oral or recorded in any form or medium, that identifies or can readily be associated with the identity of a patient and relates to the patient's health care. See Montana Code 50-16-504
- Health care provider: means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this state to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. See Montana Code 50-16-504
- Patient: means an individual who receives or has received health care. See Montana Code 50-16-504
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(1)directory information, unless the patient has instructed the health care provider not to make the disclosure;
(2)to federal, state, or local public health authorities, to the extent the health care provider is required by law to report health care information or when needed to protect the public health;
(3)to federal, state, or local law enforcement authorities to the extent required by law;
(4)to a law enforcement officer about the general physical condition of a patient being treated in a health care facility if the patient was injured on a public roadway or was injured by the possible criminal act of another;
(5)in response to a request of the office of victims services for information under 53-9-104(2)(b);
(6)pursuant to compulsory process in accordance with 50-16-535 and 50-16-536;
(7)pursuant to 50-16-712; or
(8)to the state medical examiner or a county coroner for use in determining cause of death. The information is required to be held confidential as provided by law.