Nebraska Statutes 44-32,172. Confidential information; disclosure prohibited; exception
Any data or information pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, or health of any enrollee or applicant obtained from such person or from any provider by any health maintenance organization shall be held in confidence and shall not be disclosed to any person except (1) to the extent that it may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the Health Maintenance Organization Act, (2) upon the express consent of the enrollee or applicant, (3) pursuant to statute or court order for the production of evidence or the discovery thereof, or (4) in the event of a claim or litigation between such person and the health maintenance organization in which such data or information is pertinent. A health maintenance organization shall be entitled to claim any statutory privileges against such disclosure which the provider who furnished such information to the health maintenance organization is entitled to claim.
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Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 44-32,172
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Enrollee: shall mean an individual who is covered by a health maintenance organization and shall include both subscribers and dependents of subscribers. See Nebraska Statutes 44-3299
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Health maintenance organization: shall mean any person who undertakes to provide or arrange for the delivery of basic health care services to enrollees on a prepaid basis except for enrollee responsibility for copayments or deductibles. See Nebraska Statutes 44-32,105
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Provider: shall mean any physician, hospital, or other person licensed or otherwise authorized to furnish health care services. See Nebraska Statutes 44-32,111
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.