If a health care service plan requests medical information from providers in order to determine whether to approve, modify, or deny requests for authorization of services, the plan shall request only the information reasonably necessary to make the determination.
Two or more primary care clinics that are operated by a single nonprofit corporation shall be entitled to consolidate their administrative functions, which include storing/maintaining offsite patient medical records that have been inactive for at least 3 yrs.
For public health protection, primary care clinic shall conduct health exams of employees; clinic shall maintain a health record for each employee that includes reports of all employment-related health examinations, for minimum 3 yrs after employment ends.
Licensed clinic board of directors and its medical director shall establish and adopt written policies and procedures to screen patients for purposes of detecting spousal or partner abuse.
All general acute care hospitals shall maintain a medical records system, based upon current standards, that organizes all medical records for each patient under a unique identifier. All portions of patients' records need not be stored in a single location or be in electronic format.
General acute care hospitals must be able to identify the location of all portions of a patient's medical record that are maintained under the general acute care hospital's license.
All general acute care hospitals shall develop and implement policies to ensure that relevant portions of patients' medical records can be made available within a reasonable period of time to respond to the request of a treating physician [and others].
Safe-surrender site personnel must ensure a medical screening exam and any necessary medical care is provided to child and notify child protective services within 48 hours of obtaining physical custody of the child, and provide any medical information obtained pertinent to the child's health. No consent is required to provide the child with medical care.
Hospitals participating in the Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Pilot Program must provide quarterly reports to the State Department of Public Health and the oversight committee. The quarterly reports will include patient information relating to the number of elective PCI procedures performed, the interventionalists performing elective PCI procedures, and the outcomes of those procedures.
If a patient with an emergency medical condition is covered by a health care service plan that requires prior authorization for poststabilization care, a noncontracting hospital shall seek to contact the patient's health care service plan or its contracting medical provider for authorization to provide poststabilization care.
