SB283: Revises certain provisions relating to health care . (BDR 54-555)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring a custodian of health care records to furnish health care records electronically under certain circumstances; prohibiting a custodian of health care records from charging a fee that exceeds a certain amount to furnish health care records electronically if the health care records are maintained electronically; authorizing a person to disclose the genetic information of another person in accordance with certain federal law; revising the circumstances under which a physician is authorized to prescribe or recommend and a manufacturer is authorized to provide or make available an investigational drug, biological product or device; authorizing a physician to prescribe or recommend an individualized investigational treatment under certain circumstances; requiring the reporting of certain information concerning individualized investigational treatments and investigational drugs, biological products and devices to certain governmental entities; revising the method by which a collection agency must notify a medical debtor before taking any action to collect a medical debt; authorizing a manufacturer to provide or make available an individualized investigational treatment to a patient under certain circumstances; authorizing the imposition of administrative penalties for certain violations; prohibiting an officer, employee or agent of this State from preventing or attempting to prevent a patient from accessing an individualized investigational treatment; requiring an insurer, third-party administrator or employer to furnish health care records in certain circumstances; prescribing the maximum amount of any fee charged to furnish health care records in those circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.