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Confidentiality - 28 Pa. Code § 28.5

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Identifying information relating to any newborn screened in the newborn screening program may be released in the following circumstances:

  •         To the newborn’s parent or guardian;
  •         To the newborn’s designated health care provider;
  •         As may be necessary to provide services to the newborn child;
  •         With the consent of the newborn child’s parent or guardian; and
  •         With the child’s consent when the child is 18 years of age, has graduated from high school, has married or has been pregnant.

Current as of June 2015