WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                      Ch. 11

The stylistic errors occurred in and the antiquated
language was contained in Ch. 553 of the Acts of 1963.

The stylistic errors were noted by the Michie Company.

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(b) A nonprofit health service plan or a Blue Cross or Blue
Shield plan may not reveal specific medical information contained
in a subscriber's medical records to any person unless:

(1)  It is authorized by the subscriber; [or]

(2)  It is providing information requested by or in
furtherance of the purpose of a medical review committee,
accreditation board, or commission, or in response to legal
process; [or]

(3)  It is furnishing information to another nonprofit
health service plan or Blue Cross or Blue Shield plan or an
insurance company for the purpose of coordinating benefit
payments under more than one sickness and accident, dental, or
hospital medical contract; [or]

(4)  It is providing information to governmental
agencies in the performance of their lawful duties as authorized
by an act of the General Assembly or the United States Congress;
[or]

(5)  When providing information at the request of a
researcher for the purpose of medical and health care research
pursuant to a protocol approved by an institutional review board;
or

(6)  It is furnishing information pursuant to a cost
containment contractual obligation for the purpose of verifying
that the benefits paid by the nonprofit health service plan were
contractually proper, or it is providing information to a third
party payor which does not reveal specific medical information
and is required for an audit of the billing made by the plan to
the payor.

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This corrects extraneous conjunctions in
Article 48A, § 354-O(b).

The extraneous disjunctive conjunctions, "or", were
contained in Ch. 728 of the Acts of 1978.

The extraneous conjunctions were noted by the Michie
Company.

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