Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 3701 | Department of Health
Section 3701.242 | Informed Consent to HIV Test Required.

Effective: September 10, 2012
Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly
(A) An HIV test may be performed by or on the order of a health care provider who, in the exercise of the provider's professional judgment, determines the test to be necessary for providing diagnosis and treatment to the individual to be tested, if the individual or the individual's parent or guardian has given consent to the provider for medical or other health care treatment. The health care provider shall inform the individual of the individual's right under division (D) of this section to an anonymous test.
(B) A minor may consent to be given an HIV test. The consent is not subject to disaffirmance because of minority. The parents or guardian of a minor giving consent under this division are not liable for payment and shall not be charged for an HIV test given to the minor without the consent of a parent or the guardian.
(C) The health care provider ordering an HIV test shall provide post-test counseling for an individual who receives an HIV-positive test result. The director of health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code specifying the information to be provided in post-test counseling.
(D) An individual shall have the right to an anonymous test. A health care facility or health care provider that does not provide anonymous testing shall refer an individual requesting an anonymous test to a site where it is available.
(E) Divisions (B) to (D) of this section do not apply to the performance of an HIV test in any of the following circumstances:
(1) When the test is performed in a medical emergency by a nurse or physician and the test results are medically necessary to avoid or minimize an immediate danger to the health or safety of the individual to be tested or another individual, except that post-test counseling shall be given to the individual if the individual receives an HIV-positive test result;
(2) When the test is performed for the purpose of research if the researcher does not know and cannot determine the identity of the individual tested;
(3) When the test is performed by a person who procures, processes, distributes, or uses a human body part from a deceased person donated for a purpose specified in Chapter 2108. of the Revised Code, if the test is medically necessary to ensure that the body part is acceptable for its intended purpose;
(4) When the test is performed on a person incarcerated in a correctional institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction if the head of the institution has determined, based on good cause, that a test is necessary;
(5) When the test is performed in accordance with section 2907.27 of the Revised Code;
(6) When the test is performed on an individual after the infection control committee of a health care facility, or other body of a health care facility performing a similar function determines that a health care provider, emergency medical services worker, or peace officer, while rendering health or emergency care to an individual, has sustained a significant exposure to the body fluids of that individual, and the individual has refused to give consent for testing.

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