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HB 953 Medical or health services to minors; provisions for records and reports.

Introduced by: L. Scott Lingamfelter | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Records, reports, and requirements relating to certain services delivered to minors. Requires that every local or district health department that delivers health care services, and every community services board, by whatever name known or described in law, must maintain aggregate records, without specific patient identifiers and in compliance with federal patient privacy requirements, on the services delivered to minors who are deemed to be adults for the purpose of consent that relate to sexually transmitted diseases; outpatient care, treatment or rehabilitation for substance abuse; pregnancy; and the contemplation of suicide. Such records shall, at minimum, include the following information as relevant: (i) the specific sexually transmitted disease for which treatment was sought and the treatment recommended or provided; (ii) the specific drug or drugs for which substance abuse outpatient care, treatment or rehabilitation was sought and the treatment recommended or provided; (iii) the month of pregnancy at the time prenatal care was initiated and any particular treatment recommended or provided; (iv) the reason for or any mental illness diagnosis that is implicated in the minor's contemplation of suicide; (v) any prescription drugs that the minor is currently taking; and (vi) the minor's rationale for excluding his parent from participating in the specific health care being sought.

As a condition of delivery of such care, each local or district health department or community services board must require that such minors (a) disclose any prescription drugs currently being taken; (b) acknowledge, in writing, that it is best to have his parent participate in such treatment decisions and (c) disclose the rationale for excluding his parent from participating in the specific health care being sought. A report of such aggregate data must be compiled and distributed to the Governor and the General Assembly annually by June 30. Such report will include the reason for seeking health care, the diagnosis, the number of minors seen for each category of care for which a minor may be deemed an adult, the number of minors treated in the last 12 months, the number of visits any minor made for the same health condition, and the number of minors who are treated for sexually transmitted diseases who are also known to be substance abusers. The combined report of aggregate data must also be posted on the Department of Health's website in a manner that allows the general public to access the results for each local jurisdiction in the Commonwealth as well as the state at large.


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