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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 307

(2)  Providing information requested by or to further
the purpose of a medical review committee, accreditation board,
or commission, or in response to legal process;

(3)  Providing information required to conduct the
proper activities of the health care provider;

(4)  Providing information to a government agency
performing its lawful duties as authorized by an act of the
Maryland General Assembly or the United States Congress;

(5)  Providing information at the request of a
researcher for medical and health care research under a protocol
approved by an institutional review board;

(6)  Revealing the contents of medical records under
circumstances where the identity of the patient is not disclosed
to the recipient of the records;

(7)  Providing information to an insurance company or
to a defendant or the defendant's legal counsel, in connection
with a potential or actual malpractice claim against a provider
of medical care;

(8)  Providing information requested by another
provider of medical care for the sole purpose of treating the
individual on whom the record is kept;

(9)  Providing information to a third party payor for
billing purposes only; [or]

(10)  Providing information to a nonprofit health
service plan or a Blue Cross or Blue Shield Plan to coordinate
benefit payments under more than one sickness and accident,
dental, or hospital and medical insurance policy other than an
individual policy; OR

(11)  PROVIDING INFORMATION TO ORGAN AND TISSUE
PROCUREMENT PERSONNEL UNDER THE RESTRICTIONS OF § 5-408 OF THIS
ARTICLE AT THE REQUEST OF A PHYSICIAN FOR A PATIENT WHOSE ORGANS
AND TISSUES MAY BE DONATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATING THE
PATIENT FOR POSSIBLE ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION.

(d) A provider of medical care who knowingly violates any
provision of this section shall be liable to a plaintiff for any
damages recoverable in law or equity, including reasonable
attorney's fees.                       

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 13, 1986.