Montana Code Annotated
Part 5. Uniform Health Care Information
50-16-525. Disclosure by health care provider

50-16-525. Disclosure by health care provider. (1) Except as authorized in 50-16-529, 50-16-530, and 50-19-402 or as otherwise specifically provided by law or the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure, a health care provider, an individual who assists a health care provider in the delivery of health care, or an agent or employee of a health care provider may not disclose health care information about a patient to any other person without the patient's written authorization. A disclosure made under a patient's written authorization must conform to the authorization.
(2) A health care provider shall maintain, in conjunction with a patient's recorded health care information, a record of each person who has received or examined, in whole or in part, the recorded health care information during the preceding 3 years, except for a person who has examined the recorded health care information under 50-16-529(1) or (2). The record of disclosure must include the name, address, and institutional affiliation, if any, of each person receiving or examining the recorded health care information, the date of the receipt or examination, and to the extent practicable a description of the information disclosed.
History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 632, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 657, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 519, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 353, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 235, L. 2017.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 50. Health and Safety

Chapter 16. Health Care Information

Part 5. Uniform Health Care Information

50-16-501. Short title

50-16-502. Legislative findings

50-16-503. Uniformity of application and construction

50-16-504. Definitions

50-16-505. Limit on applicability

50-16-506. through 50-16-510 reserved

50-16-511. Duty to adopt security safeguards

50-16-512. Content and dissemination of notice

50-16-513. Retention of record

50-16-514. through 50-16-520 reserved

50-16-521. Health care representatives

50-16-522. Representative of deceased patient

50-16-523. and 50-16-524 reserved

50-16-525. Disclosure by health care provider

50-16-526. Patient authorization to health care provider for disclosure

50-16-527. Patient authorization -- retention -- effective period -- exception -- communication without prior notice for workers' compensation purposes

50-16-528. Patient's revocation of authorization for disclosure

50-16-529. Disclosure without patient's authorization based on need to know

50-16-530. Disclosure without patient's authorization

50-16-531. Immunity of health care providers pursuant to written authorization -- form required

50-16-532. through 50-16-534 reserved

50-16-535. When health care information available by compulsory process

50-16-536. Method of compulsory process

50-16-537. through 50-16-539 reserved

50-16-540. Reasonable fees allowed

50-16-541. Requirements and procedures for patient's examination and copying

50-16-542. Denial of examination and copying

50-16-543. Request for correction or amendment

50-16-544. Procedure for adding correction, amendment, or statement of disagreement

50-16-545. Dissemination of corrected or amended information or statement of disagreement

50-16-546. through 50-16-550 reserved

50-16-551. Criminal penalty

50-16-552. Civil enforcement

50-16-553. Civil remedies