NRS 629.069 Provider of health care required to disclose results of tests for certain contagious diseases to certain persons; immunity from civil liability; information confidential.

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1. A provider of health care shall disclose the results of all tests performed pursuant to NRS 441A.195 to:

(a)The person who was tested and, upon request, a member of the family of a decedent who was tested;

(b)The law enforcement officer, correctional officer, emergency medical attendant, firefighter, county coroner or medical examiner or their employee or volunteer, other person who is employed by or volunteers for an agency of criminal justice or other public employee or volunteer of a public agency who filed the petition or on whose behalf the petition was filed pursuant to NRS 441A.195 ;

(c)The designated health care officer for the employer of the person or the public agency for which the person volunteers, as described in paragraph

(b)or, if there is no designated health care officer, the person designated by the employer or public agency to document and verify possible exposure to communicable diseases;

(d)If the person who was tested is incarcerated or detained, the person in charge of the facility in which the person is incarcerated or detained and the chief medical officer of the facility in which the person is incarcerated or detained, if any; and

(e)A designated investigator or member of the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine during any period in which the Board is investigating the holder of a license pursuant to chapter 633 of NRS.

2. A provider of health care and an agent or employee of a provider of health care are immune from civil liability for a disclosure made in accordance with the provisions of this section.

3. A person to whom the results of a test pursuant to paragraph

(b)or

(c)of subsection 1 are disclosed shall keep any information relating to the identity of the person about whom the results relate in strict confidence and shall not disclose any information about that person or the results of any test which would identify the person to any other person or governmental entity.

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