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HB 586 Health regulatory boards; confidentiality of certain information obtained by boards.

Introduced by: Joseph R. Yost | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Confidentiality of certain information obtained by health regulatory boards in disciplinary proceedings. Provides that in disciplinary actions involving allegations that a practitioner is or may be unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients and the public because of a mental or physical disability, a health regulatory board shall consider whether to disclose and may decide not to disclose in its notice or order the practitioner's health records or his health services, although such information may be considered by the board in a closed hearing and included in a confidential exhibit to a notice or order. The bill provides that the public notice or order shall identify, if known, the practitioner's mental or physical disability that is the basis of its determination.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Confidentiality of certain information obtained by health regulatory boards in disciplinary proceedings. Provides that in cases involving allegations that a practitioner is unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients because of excessive use of alcohol or drugs or physical or mental illness, the health regulatory board may deem information related to (i) health services received by the practitioner as defined in § 32.1-127.1:03, (ii) information derived from the health records, as defined in § 32.1-127.1:03, or (iii) any finding of fact that may indicate the practitioner's physical or mental illness confidential and include such information in a confidential exhibit to a notice or order that shall not be disclosed to the public.