GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999
SESSION LAW 1999-272
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 58-67-180 reads as rewritten:
"§ 58-67-180. Confidentiality of medical information.
Any data or information pertaining to the diagnosis,
treatment, or health of any enrollee or applicant obtained from such person or
from any provider by any health maintenance organization shall be held in
confidence and shall not be disclosed to any person except to the extent that
it may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Article; or upon the
express consent of the enrollee or applicant; or pursuant to statute or statute;
or pursuant to court order for the production of evidence or the discovery
thereof; or in the event of claim or litigation between such person and the
health maintenance organization wherein such data or information is pertinent.
A health maintenance organization shall be entitled to claim any statutory
privileges against such disclosure which the provider who furnished such
information to the health maintenance organization is entitled to claim."
Section 2. G.S. 131E-310 reads as rewritten:
"§ 131E-310. Confidentiality of medical information.
Any data or information pertaining to the diagnosis,
treatment, or health of any beneficiary or applicant obtained from the person
or from any provider by any provider sponsored organization or by any provider
acting pursuant to its provider contract with a provider sponsored organization
shall be held in confidence and shall not be disclosed to any person except to
the extent that it may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Article;
or upon the express consent of the beneficiary or applicant; or pursuant to statute
or statute; or pursuant to court order for the production of
evidence or the discovery thereof; or in the event of claim or litigation
between such person and the provider sponsored organization wherein such data
or information is pertinent. A provider sponsored organization shall be
entitled to claim any statutory privileges against such disclosure which the
provider who furnished such information to the provider sponsored organization
is entitled to claim.
Section 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 1999.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 10:33 p.m. this 11th day of July, 1999