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MT Code § 50-16-603 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 6. Government Health Care Information|50-16-603. Confidentiality of health care information

  50-16-603. Confidentiality of health care information. Health care information in the possession of the department, a local board, a local health officer, or the entity's authorized representatives may not be released except:   (1) for statistical purposes, if no identification of individuals can be made from the information released;   (2) when the health care information pertains to a person who has given written consent to the release and has specified the type of information to be released and the person or entity to whom it may be released;   (3) to medical personnel in a medical emergency as necessary to protect the health, life, or well-being of the named person;   (4) as allowed by Title 50, chapters 17 and 18;   (5) to another state or local public health agency, including those in other states, whenever necessary to continue health services to the named person or to undertake public health efforts to prevent or interrupt the transmission of a communicable disease or to alleviate and prevent injury caused by the release of biological, chemical, or radiological agents capable of causing imminent disability, death, or infection;   (6) in the case of a minor, as required by 41-3-201 or pursuant to an investigation or a safety and risk assessment under 41-3-202 or if the health care information is to be presented as evidence in a court proceeding involving child abuse pursuant to Title 41, chapter 3. Documents containing the information must be sealed by the court upon conclusion of the proceedings.   (7) to medical personnel, the department, a local health officer or board, or a district court when necessary to implement or enforce state statutes or state or local health rules concerning the prevention or control of diseases designated as reportable pursuant to 50-1-202, if the release does not conflict with any other provision contained in this part.   History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 481, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 391, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 504, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 382, L. 2019.
MT Code § 50-16-604 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 6. Government Health Care Information|50-16-604. Secondary release of health care information

  50-16-604. Secondary release of health care information. Information released pursuant to 50-16-603 may not be released by the person or entity it is released to unless the release conforms to the requirements of 50-16-603.   History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 481, L. 1989.
MT Code § 50-16-605 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 6. Government Health Care Information|50-16-605. Judicial, legislative, and administrative proceedings -- testimony

  50-16-605. Judicial, legislative, and administrative proceedings -- testimony. (1) An officer or employee of the department may not be examined in a judicial, legislative, administrative, or other proceeding about the existence or content of records containing individually identifiable health care information, including the results of investigations, unless all individuals whose names appear in the records give written consent to the release of information identifying them.   (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the health care information is to be released pursuant to 50-16-603(6) and (7).   History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 481, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 27, Ch. 504, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-16-606 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 6. Government Health Care Information|50-16-606. Correlation with Uniform Health Care Information Act

  50-16-606. Correlation with Uniform Health Care Information Act. Health care information in the possession of a local board, local health officer, or the department because a health care provider employed by any of these entities provided health care to a patient, either individually or at a public health center or other publicly owned health care facility, is subject to the Uniform Health Care Information Act and not subject to this part.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 432, L. 1991.
MT Code § 50-16-607 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 6. Government Health Care Information|50-16-607. through 50-16-610 reserved

  50-16-607 through 50-16-610 reserved.
MT Code § 50-16-611 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 6. Government Health Care Information|50-16-611. Penalty

  50-16-611. Penalty. A person who knowingly violates the provisions of this part is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $500 or more than $10,000, be imprisoned in the county jail not less than 3 months or more than 1 year, or both.   History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 481, L. 1989.
MT Code § 50-16-701 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-701. Definitions

  50-16-701. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:   (1) "Airborne infectious disease" means an infectious disease transmitted from person to person by an aerosol, including but not limited to infectious tuberculosis.   (2) "Department" means the department of public health and human services provided for in 2-15-2201.   (3) "Designated officer" means the emergency services organization's representative and the alternate whose names are on record with the department as the persons responsible for notifying an emergency services provider of exposure.   (4) "Emergency services organization" means a public or private organization that provides emergency services to the public.   (5) "Emergency services provider" means a person employed by or acting as a volunteer with an emergency services organization, including but not limited to a law enforcement officer, firefighter, emergency care provider, corrections officer, or ambulance service attendant.   (6) "Exposure" means the subjecting of a person to a risk of transmission of an infectious disease through the commingling of the blood or bodily fluids of the person and a patient or in another manner as defined by department rule.   (7) "Health care facility" has the meaning provided in 50-5-101 and includes a public health center as defined in 7-34-2102.   (8) "Infectious disease" means human immunodeficiency virus infection, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, communicable pulmonary tuberculosis, meningococcal meningitis, and any other disease capable of being transmitted through an exposure that has been designated by department rule.   (9) "Infectious disease control officer" means the person designated by the health care facility as the person who is responsible for notifying the emergency services provider's designated officer and the department of an infectious disease as provided for in this part and by rule.   (10) "Patient" means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 390, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 476, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 110, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 287, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 93, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 146, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 27, Ch. 220, L. 2019.
MT Code § 50-16-703 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-703. Notification of precautions after exposure to infectious disease

  50-16-703. Notification of precautions after exposure to infectious disease. (1) After a patient is transported to a health care facility and if a physician determines that the transported patient has an infectious disease, the physician shall inform the infectious disease control officer of the health care facility of the determination within 24 hours after the determination is made.   (2) If it is determined that the infectious disease is airborne or a report of exposure was filed concerning the patient under 50-16-702, the health care facility shall provide the notification required by subsection (3) orally within 48 hours after the time of diagnosis and in writing within 72 hours after diagnosis to the designated officer of each emergency services organization known to the health care facility to have provided emergency services to the patient prior to or during transportation to the health care facility.   (3) The notification must state the disease to which the emergency services provider was exposed, the appropriate medical precautions and treatment that the exposed person needs to take, the date on which the patient was transported to the health care facility, and the time that the patient arrived at the facility.   History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 390, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 476, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 146, L. 1999.
MT Code § 50-16-704 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-704. Confidentiality -- penalty for violation -- immunity from liability

  50-16-704. Confidentiality -- penalty for violation -- immunity from liability. (1) The name of the person diagnosed as having an infectious disease may not be released to anyone, including the emergency services provider who was exposed, nor may the name of the emergency services provider who was exposed be released to anyone other than the emergency services provider, except as required by this part, by department rule concerning reporting of communicable disease, or as allowed by Title 50, chapter 16, part 5.   (2) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $500 or more than $10,000, be imprisoned in the county jail not less than 3 months or more than 1 year, or both.   (3) A health care facility, a representative of a health care facility, a physician, or the designated officer of an emergency services provider's organization may not be held jointly or severally liable for providing the notification required by 50-16-703 when the notification is made in good faith or for failing to provide the notification if good faith attempts to contact an exposed person of exposure are unsuccessful.   History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 390, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 476, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 146, L. 1999.
MT Code § 50-16-705 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-705. Rulemaking authority

  50-16-705. Rulemaking authority. The department shall adopt rules to:   (1) define what constitutes an exposure to an infectious disease;   (2) specify the infectious diseases subject to this part;   (3) specify the information about an exposure that must be included in a report of exposure;   (4) specify recommended medical precautions and treatment for each infectious disease subject to this part; and   (5) specify recordkeeping and reporting requirements necessary to ensure compliance with the notification requirements of this part.   History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 390, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 476, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 146, L. 1999.
MT Code § 50-16-706 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-706. through 50-16-710 reserved

  50-16-706 through 50-16-710 reserved.
MT Code § 50-16-711 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-711. Health care facility and emergency services organization responsibilities for tracking exposure to infectious disease

  50-16-711. Health care facility and emergency services organization responsibilities for tracking exposure to infectious disease. (1) The health care facility and the emergency services organization shall develop internal procedures for implementing the provisions of this part and department rules.   (2) The health care facility must have available at all times a person to receive the form provided for in 50-16-702 containing a report of exposure to infectious disease.   (3) The health care facility shall designate an infectious disease control officer and an alternate who will be responsible for maintaining the required records and notifying designated officers in accordance with the provisions of this part and the rules promulgated under this part and shall provide the names of the designated officer and the alternate to the department.   (4) The emergency services organization shall name a designated officer and an alternate and shall provide their names to the department.   History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 476, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 146, L. 1999.
MT Code § 50-16-712 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 7. Report of Exposure to Infectious Disease|50-16-712. Notification to mortuary personnel -- exposure to infectious disease

  50-16-712. Notification to mortuary personnel -- exposure to infectious disease. (1) A coroner, a health care facility, or a health care provider, as defined in 50-16-1003, shall disclose information regarding the status of a deceased individual with regard to an infectious disease to personnel from a mortuary licensed under Title 37, chapter 19, at the time of transfer of the dead body or as soon after transfer as possible. The information must include whether the individual had an infectious disease at the time of death and the nature of the infectious disease.   (2) The mortuary personnel who receive the information provided in subsection (1) may not disclose the information except for purposes related directly to the preparation and disposition of the dead body.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 396, L. 1995.
MT Code § 50-16-801 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-801. Legislative findings

  50-16-801. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that:   (1) health care information is personal and sensitive information that if improperly used or released may do significant harm to a patient's interests in privacy and health care or other interests;   (2) the enactment of federal health care privacy legislation and the adoption of rules pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 42 U.S.C. 1320d, et seq., provide significant privacy protection for health care information with respect to health care providers subject to HIPAA;   (3) for health care providers subject to the health care information privacy protections of HIPAA, the applicability of the provisions of Title 50, chapter 16, part 5, relating to health care privacy is unnecessary and may result in significant practical difficulties;   (4) it is in the best interest of the citizens of Montana to have certain requirements, with respect to the use or release of health care information by health care providers, that are more restrictive than or additional to the health care privacy protections of HIPAA.   History: En. Sec. 15, Ch. 396, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-16-802 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-802. Applicability

  50-16-802. Applicability. This part applies only to health care providers subject to the health care information privacy protections of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 42 U.S.C. 1320d, et seq., and administrative rules adopted in connection with HIPAA.   History: En. Sec. 16, Ch. 396, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-16-803 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-803. Definitions

  50-16-803. Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions apply:   (1) "Health care" means care, services, or supplies provided by a health care provider that are related to the health of an individual. Health care includes but is not limited to the following:   (a) preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or palliative care and counseling, service, assessment, or procedure with respect to an individual's physical or mental condition; or   (b) the sale or dispensing of any drug, device, equipment, or other item in accordance with a prescription.   (2) "Health care facility" means a hospital, clinic, nursing home, laboratory, office, or similar place where a health care provider provides health care to patients.   (3) "Health care information" means any information, whether oral or recorded in any form or medium, that:   (a) is created or received by a health care provider;   (b) relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual or to the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual; and   (c) identifies or with respect to which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify the individual.   (4) "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.   (5) "Patient" means an individual who receives or has received health care. The term includes a deceased individual who has received health care.   (6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or other legal or commercial entity.   (7) "Reasonable fee" means the charge, as provided for in 50-16-816, for duplicating, searching for, or handling recorded health care information.   History: En. Sec. 17, Ch. 396, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-16-804 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-804. Representative of deceased patient's estate

  50-16-804. Representative of deceased patient's estate. Except as provided in 50-19-402, a personal representative of a deceased patient's estate may exercise all of the deceased patient's rights under this part. If there is no personal representative or upon discharge of the personal representative, a deceased patient's rights under this part may be exercised by the surviving spouse, a parent, an adult child, an adult sibling, or any other person who is authorized by law to act for the deceased person.  History: En. Sec. 18, Ch. 396, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 67, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 353, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 235, L. 2017.
MT Code § 50-16-805 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-805. Disclosure of information allowed for certain purposes

  50-16-805. Disclosure of information allowed for certain purposes. (1) To the extent provided in 39-71-604 and 50-16-527, a signed claim for workers' compensation or occupational disease benefits authorizes disclosure to the workers' compensation insurer, as defined in 39-71-116, by the health care provider.  (2) A health care provider may disclose health care information about an individual for law enforcement purposes if the disclosure is to:   (a) federal, state, or local law enforcement authorities to the extent required by law; or   (b) a law enforcement officer about the general physical condition of a patient being treated in a health care facility if the patient was injured by the possible criminal act of another.   (3) A health care provider may disclose health care information to a fetal, infant, child, and maternal mortality review team for the purposes of 50-19-402.   History: En. Sec. 19, Ch. 396, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 67, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 353, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 235, L. 2017.
MT Code § 50-16-806 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-806. through 50-16-810 reserved

  50-16-806 through 50-16-810 reserved.
MT Code § 50-16-811 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-811. When health care information available by compulsory process

  50-16-811. When health care information available by compulsory process. (1) Health care information may not be disclosed by a health care provider pursuant to compulsory legal process or discovery in any judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless:   (a) the patient has authorized in writing the release of the health care information in response to compulsory process or a discovery request;   (b) the patient has waived the right to claim confidentiality for the health care information sought;   (c) the patient is a party to the proceeding and has placed the patient's physical or mental condition in issue;   (d) the patient's physical or mental condition is relevant to the execution or witnessing of a will or other document;   (e) the physical or mental condition of a deceased patient is placed in issue by any person claiming or defending through or as a beneficiary of the patient;   (f) a patient's health care information is to be used in the patient's commitment proceeding;   (g) the health care information is for use in any law enforcement proceeding or investigation in which a health care provider is the subject or a party, except that health care information so obtained may not be used in any proceeding against the patient unless the matter relates to payment for the patient's health care or unless authorized under subsection (1)(i);   (h) a court has determined that particular health care information is subject to compulsory legal process or discovery because the party seeking the information has demonstrated that there is a compelling state interest that outweighs the patient's privacy interest;   (i) the health care information is requested pursuant to an investigative subpoena issued under 46-4-301 or similar federal law; or   (j) the patient is deceased and the coroner requires the health care information for the investigation of the death as provided in Title 46, chapter 4, part 1.   (2) This part does not authorize the disclosure of health care information by compulsory legal process or discovery in any judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding where disclosure is otherwise prohibited by law.   History: En. Sec. 20, Ch. 396, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 164, L. 2017.
MT Code § 50-16-813 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-813. through 50-16-815 reserved

  50-16-813 through 50-16-815 reserved.
MT Code § 50-16-816 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 16. Health Care Information|Part 8. Health Care Information Privacy Requirements for Providers Subject to HIPAA|50-16-816. Reasonable fees

  50-16-816. Reasonable fees. Unless prohibited by federal law, a reasonable fee for providing copies of health care information may not exceed 50 cents for each page for a paper copy or photocopy. A reasonable fee may include an administrative fee that may not exceed $15 for searching and handling recorded health care information.   History: En. Sec. 22, Ch. 396, L. 2003.