[oblpct] Legislation - HB 3669

[Oregon Bd Licensed Profess Counselors & Therapists Information]

House Bill 3669
Repeals  requirements  for  disclosure  of  protected  health  information  regarding  individual  between  providers  of  behavioral  or  physical  health  care  services  to  individual.  Declares  emergency,  effective  on  passage.

The House Human Services Committee held a public hearing on this bill on Friday, February 5.  A work session is scheduled today in the same committee.

 This is what would be repealed:

 192.527 Allowed disclosure of protected health information by state health plan or prepaid managed care health services organization. (1) Notwithstanding ORS 179.505, a state health plan or a prepaid managed care health services organization may disclose the protected health information of an individual listed in subsection (2) of this section, without obtaining an authorization from the individual or a personal representative of the individual, to another prepaid managed care health services organization for treatment activities of a prepaid managed care health services organization when the prepaid managed care health services organization is providing behavioral or physical health care services to the individual.

      (2) The protected health information that may be disclosed pursuant to subsection (1) of this section includes the following, as defined by the Oregon Health Authority by rule:

      (a) Medicaid recipient name;

      (b) Medicaid recipient number;

      (c) Performing provider number;

      (d) Hospital provider name;

      (e) Attending physician;

      (f) Diagnosis;

      (g) Date or dates of service;

      (h) Procedure code;

      (i) Revenue code;

      (j) Quantity of units of service provided; or

      (k) Medication prescription and monitoring.

      (3) As used in this section, "prepaid managed care health services organization" has the meaning given that term in ORS 414.736. 
 
      192.528 Notice to individual of information that may be disclosed under ORS 192.527. Upon an individual's enrollment in a state health plan or a prepaid managed care health services organization, the plan or organization shall disclose to the individual the information that may be disclosed or exchanged under ORS 192.527. The plan or organization must obtain a signed acknowledgment that the individual has been informed of the provisions of this section and ORS 192.527 and the specific information that may be disclosed or exchanged under ORS 192.527 without the individual's authorization. [2007 c.798 §3]

 
 
Becky Eklund, Executive Director
Oregon Board of Licensed Professional
    Counselors and Therapists
3218 Pringle Road SE, #250
Salem, OR 97302
(503) 378-5499
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