California Civil Code CHAPTER 2 - Disclosure of Medical Information by Providers

• Section 56.10.
  (a) A provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor shall not disclose medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care...
• Section 56.1007.
  (a) A provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor may, in accordance with subdivision (c) or (d), disclose to a family member, other...
• Section 56.101.
  (a) Every provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, or contractor who creates, maintains, preserves, stores, abandons, destroys, or disposes of medical information...
• Section 56.102.
  (a) A pharmaceutical company may not require a patient, as a condition of receiving pharmaceuticals, medications, or prescription drugs, to sign an authorization, release, consent, or...
• Section 56.103.
  (a) A provider of health care may disclose medical information to a county social worker, a probation officer, a foster care public health nurse acting pursuant...
• Section 56.104.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 56.10, except as provided in subdivision (e), no provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor may release...
• Section 56.105.
  Whenever, prior to the service of a complaint upon a defendant in any action arising out of the professional negligence of a person holding a...
• Section 56.106.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3025 of the Family Code, paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 56.11, or any other provision of law, a psychotherapist who knows...
• Section 56.107.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, a health care service plan shall take the following steps to protect the...
• Section 56.11.
  Any person or entity that wishes to obtain medical information pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 56.10, other than a person or entity authorized to...
• Section 56.12.
  Upon demand by the patient or the person who signed an authorization, a provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, or contractor...
• Section 56.13.
  A recipient of medical information pursuant to an authorization as provided by this chapter or pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (c) of Section 56.10...
• Section 56.14.
  A provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor that discloses medical information pursuant to the authorizations required by this chapter shall communicate...
• Section 56.15.
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent a person who could sign the authorization pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 56.11 from cancelling...
• Section 56.16.
  For disclosures not addressed by Section 56.1007, unless there is a specific written request by the patient to the contrary, nothing in this part shall...

Last modified: October 22, 2018