333.152 Laboratory tests -- Disclosure -- Exceptions.

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(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except as provided

by subsection

(2)of this section, a health care provider requesting that a

medical laboratory test for a patient is performed shall not engage in

information blocking as described in 42 U.S.C. sec. 300jj-52.

(2)The following reports or test results and any other related results shall not be

disclosed to a patient as part of the patients electronic health record, or in the

case of a clinical laboratory test result, or pathology report, shall not be

disclosed by the person or entity that administers and controls the patients

electronic health record, until seventy-two

(72)hours after the results are

finalized, unless the health care provider directs the release of the results

before the end of that seventy-two

(72)hour period:

(a)Pathology reports or radiology reports that have a reasonable likelihood

of showing a finding of malignancy; or

(b)Tests that could reveal genetic markers.