California Health and Safety Code PART 1.7 - HEALTH FACILITIES DISCLOSURE ACT

• Section 440.10.
  “Health facility,” as used in this chapter, means any general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250)...
• Section 440.20.
  Within seven days after completion of the patient’s itemized bill, every health facility shall provide to the primary attending health care practitioner a copy, upon...
• Section 440.30.
  The primary attending health care practitioner’s written request to the health facility shall specify the records to be copied pursuant to Section 440.20 and shall...
• Section 440.40.
  The primary attending health care practitioner shall obtain prior written consent from each patient for whom a billing is requested, authorizing the release of the...
• Section 440.50.
  No information, other than the itemized billing set forth in Section 440.20, that is prohibited from being released by any other provision of law shall...

Last modified: October 22, 2018