26B-3-304. Confidentiality of records.
Terms Used In Utah Code 26B-3-304
- Board: means the Drug Utilization Review Board created in Section 26B-3-302. See Utah Code 26B-3-301
- DUR: means the program designed to measure and assess, on a retrospective and prospective basis, the proper use of outpatient drugs in the Medicaid program. See Utah Code 26B-3-301
- Intervention: means a form of communication utilized by the board with a prescriber or pharmacist to inform about or influence prescribing or dispensing practices. See Utah Code 26B-3-301
- member: means an individual whom the department has determined to be eligible for assistance under the Medicaid program. See Utah Code 26B-3-101
- Pharmacist: means a person licensed in this state to engage in the practice of pharmacy under Title 58, Chapter 17b, Pharmacy Practice Act. See Utah Code 26B-3-301
- Physician: means a person licensed in this state to practice medicine and surgery under Section 58-67-301 or osteopathic medicine under Section 58-68-301. See Utah Code 26B-3-301
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The board shall establish procedures ensuring that the information described in Subsection 26B-3-304(16) is held confidential by the pharmacist, being provided to the physician only upon request. |
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The board shall adopt and implement procedures designed to ensure the confidentiality of all information collected, stored, retrieved, assessed, or analyzed by the board, staff to the board, or contractors to the DUR program, that identifies individual physicians, pharmacists, or recipients. The board may have access to identifying information for purposes of carrying out intervention activities, but that identifying information may not be released to anyone other than a member of the board. The board may release cumulative nonidentifying information for research purposes. |
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 306, 2023 General Session
