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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 603

admittee meets this criteria the physician OR CERTIFIED
PSYCHOLOGIST shall so indicate on the petition and the
emergency admittee shall immediately be admitted to the
emergency facility for the purposes of emergency care and

treatment. The examining physician OR CERTIFIED

PSYCHOLOGIST or his designee shall give notice of the
examination, the emergency admittee's present and potential
status, and whereabouts to the petitioner, and to the
nearest relative or interested person shown on the petition,
and to the emergency admittee's attorney, if any. If the
examining physician OR CERTIFIED PSYCHOLOGIST finds that the
emergency admittee does not meet the criteria, the physician
OR CERTIFIED PSYCHOLOGIST shall so indicate in writing on
the petition and the emergency admittee must be released
from custody forthwith, unless the physician OR CERTIFIED
PSYCHOLOGIST finds that the emergency admittee meets the
criteria for involuntary admission pursuant to Section 12 of
this article. If the examining physician OR CERTIFIED
PSYCHOLOGIST finds that the emergency admittee meets the
criteria for involuntary admission, the physician OR
CERTIFIED—PSYCHOLOGIST shall take the necessary steps to
have the emergency admittee admitted to an appropriate
facility pursuant to Section 12.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 604

(House Bill 1089)

AN ACT concerning

Nonmedical Information - Third Party Payors Medical Records

— Privacy

FOR the purpose of permitting a medical provider, a
nonprofit health service plan, a Blue Cross or Blue
Shield plan, or an insurance company to give a payor
information which is not specific medical information
and which is required to audit the billing to the payor
of medical services; and permitting nonprofit health
service plans and insurance companies to release
medical information under certain circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 54L(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)