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Health care utilization committees, A.R.S. § 36-441
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“Health care utilization committees; immunity; exception; definition”
Persons that take action while serving on or on behalf of a health care utilization committee or persons that provide information to a health care utilization committee are immune from resulting liability. The immunity does not attach to persons that act with malice.
Health care utilization committee records and proceedings are confidential. Such information is not subject to discovery unless the action is before the Arizona medical board, the board of osteopathic examiners, or involves a health care provider challenging a disciplinary decision that relied on information from the utilization review. Health care utilization review records and proceedings are inadmissible as evidence.
Arizona clarifies that this provision does not impact patients’ claims to privacy or privilege, prevent the subpoena of patient medical records, or limit the authority of the director of the department of health services over records and information that fall outside the scope of this section.
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