Sec. 206.157. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INVESTIGATIVE INFORMATION. A complaint, adverse report, investigation file, or other report, the identity of and reports made by a physician or surgical assistant performing or supervising compliance monitoring for the medical board, or other investigative information in the possession of or received or gathered by the medical board, medical board employee or agent relating to a license holder, a license application, or a criminal investigation or proceeding is privileged and confidential and is not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion for release to any person other than the medical board or medical board employee or agent involved in license holder discipline.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1014, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle C - Other Professions Performing Medical Procedures
Chapter 206 - Surgical Assistants
Subchapter D. Public Interest Information; Complaint and Investigative Information
Section 206.151. Public Participation
Section 206.152. Public Interest Information
Section 206.154. Records of Complaints
Section 206.155. License Holder Access to Complaint Information
Section 206.156. Health Care Entity Request for Information
Section 206.157. Confidentiality of Investigative Information
Section 206.1575. Conduct of Investigation
Section 206.158. Permitted Disclosure of Investigative Information