RCW 70.02.280
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A health care provider, health care facility, and their assistants, employees, agents, and contractors may not:
(1)Use or disclose health care information for marketing or fund-raising purposes, unless permitted by federal law; or
(2)Sell health care information to a third party, except:
(a)For purposes of treatment or payment;
(b)For purposes of sale, transfer, merger, or consolidation of a business;
(c)For purposes of remuneration to a third party for services;
(d)As disclosures are required by law;
(e)For purposes of providing access to or accounting of disclosures to an individual;
(f)For public health purposes;
(g)For research;
(h)With an individual's authorization;
(i)Where a reasonable cost-based fee is paid to prepare and transmit health information, where authority to disclose the information is provided in this chapter; or
(j)In a format that is deidentified and aggregated.
[ 2014 c 220 s 11 ; 2013 c 200 s 12 .]
Notes:
Effective date — 2014 c 220: See note following RCW 70.02.290 .
Effective date — 2013 c 200: See note following RCW 70.02.010 .