Sections
18 entriesSection 56.10Prohibits health care providers, plans and contractors from disclosing a patient's medical information without authorization, while compelling release under court orders, search…Section 56.1007Allows providers, health plans and contractors to share medical information relevant to a patient's care with family, a domestic partner, a close…Section 56.101Requires providers, plans, pharmaceutical companies and contractors to create, store and destroy medical information confidentially, and requires electronic record systems to log…Section 56.102Prohibits a pharmaceutical company from requiring a patient to sign a disclosure authorization, release, consent, or waiver as a condition of receiving…Section 56.103Allows a health care provider to give a county social worker, probation officer, foster care public health nurse or other legal custodian…Section 56.104Bars providers, plans and contractors from releasing information about a patient's outpatient psychotherapy treatment unless the requester submits a signed written request…Section 56.105Requires a settlement demand or compromise offer made on a patient's behalf, before serving a malpractice complaint on a physician, marriage and…Section 56.106Prohibits a psychotherapist who knows a minor has been removed from parental custody in dependency proceedings from releasing the minor's mental health…Section 56.107Requires health care service plans to send all communications about a protected individual's sensitive services directly to that person, honor confidential communication…Section 56.108Prohibits providers, plans, contractors and employers from releasing medical information about someone seeking or obtaining an abortion in response to out-of-state subpoenas,…Section 56.109Prohibits providers, plans and contractors from releasing medical information about anyone seeking, obtaining or allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health or…Section 56.110Bars health care providers, plans, pharmaceutical companies, contractors and employers from disclosing electronic medical information identifying anyone involved in a lawful California…Section 56.11Requires anyone not otherwise authorized to obtain medical information to get a signed authorization, and sets its conditions: 14-point type or handwritten,…Section 56.12Requires a provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company or contractor that holds a signed medical information authorization to…Section 56.13Prohibits anyone who receives medical information under an authorization allowed by this chapter, or under subdivision (c) of Section 56.10, from disclosing…Section 56.14Requires a health care provider, health care service plan, or contractor disclosing medical information under this chapter's authorizations to pass along any…Section 56.15Allows a person who could sign an authorization under subdivision (c) of Section 56.11 to cancel or modify it, but makes the…Section 56.16Allows a general acute care hospital, when asked about a specific patient, to release at its discretion the patient's name, address, age,…