CONFIDENTIALITY.

62M.08 CONFIDENTIALITY. § Subdivision 1.Written procedures to ensure confidentiality. A utilization review organization must have written procedures for ensuring that patient-specific information obtained during the process of utilization review will be: (1) kept confidential in accordance with applicable federal and state laws; (2) used solely for the purposes of utilization review, quality assurance, discharge planning, and case management; and (3) shared only with those organizations or persons that have the authority to receive such information. § Subd. 2.Summary data. Summary data is not subject to this section if it does not provide sufficient information to allow identification of individual patients. History: 1992 c 574 s 8