Unless otherwise specified in an advance health-care directive, a person then authorized to make health-care decisions for a patient has the same rights as the patient to request, receive, examine, copy and consent to the disclosure of medical or any other health-care information.
History: Laws 1995, ch. 182, ยง 8.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 7A - Uniform Health-Care Decisions
Section 24-7A-1 - Definitions.
Section 24-7A-2 - Advance health-care directives.
Section 24-7A-2.1 - Prohibited practice.
Section 24-7A-3 - Revocation of advance health-care directive.
Section 24-7A-4 - Optional form.
Section 24-7A-5 - Decisions by surrogate.
Section 24-7A-6 - Decisions by guardian.
Section 24-7A-6.1 - Life-sustaining treatment for unemancipated minors.
Section 24-7A-6.2 - Consent to health care for certain minors fourteen years of age or older.
Section 24-7A-7 - Obligations of health-care practitioner.
Section 24-7A-8 - Health-care information.
Section 24-7A-10 - Statutory damages.
Section 24-7A-12 - Effect of copy.
Section 24-7A-13 - Effect of the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act.
Section 24-7A-14 - Judicial relief.
Section 24-7A-15 - Uniformity of application and construction.
Section 24-7A-16 - Transitional provisions.