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Privacy and Confidentiality in Alabama

 

Privacy and Confidentiality in Alabama

Subtopic Statute/Regulation Description
Privacy and Confidentiality Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-7-.05 Patient Rights Hospitals are required to protect patients’ rights.  Hospitals must inform patients of their rights before furnishing or...
Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-7-.05 Patient Rights Licensed Alabama hospitals must “protect and promote” patient rights. Consequently, hospitals must provide patients with...
Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-7-.13 Medical Record Services Licensed Alabama hospitals must assign responsibility for medical record administration to a  “medical records...
Ala. Admin. Code r. 545-X-4-.06 Unprofessional Conduct Alabama defines “unprofessional conduct” as an act or omission that harms patients or the public welfare and...
Ala. Admin. Code r. 545-X-4-.09 Minimum Standards for Medical Records Licensed Alabama physicians must maintain “adequate medical records.” Records are adequate if they...
Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-9-44-.06 Confidentiality and privacy Alabama does not provide statutory protection for substance abuse treatment records. The regulation charges substance...
Ala. Code § 25-5-339 Confidentiality of information Individuals and organizations that have access to information relating to drug test results, such as employers or...
Confidentiality of substance abuse records Ala. Admin. Code r. 540-X-21-.03, Alabama Pain Management Act Physicians who treat patients for addiction, but are not addiction specialists, must comply with 42 C.F.R. Part 2.
Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-2-20-.04, Recipient Protection Agencies certified by the Department of Mental Health to provide substance use disorder services must comply with state and federal confidentiality...
Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-9-44-.28, Medically Monitored Residential Detoxification Program Narcotic treatment programs must maintain patient records in compliance with applicable Federal and State Requirements
Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-9-44-.29, Opioid Maintenance Therapy Level I-O Opioid Programs must obtain client consent in accordance with Part 2 prior to disclosing information to a central registry and prior to...
Substance Abuse Services: Privacy and Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-9-44-.06
Confidentiality of medical records Assisted Living Facilities: Records and Reports, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.05
Department of mental health : consumer protection, Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-2-9-.04
HIV/AIDS: Confidentiality, Ala. Code § 22-11A-54
Hospices: medical records, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-17-.18
Independent Clinical Laboratories: General Rules, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-8-.01
Marriage and Family Therapists: confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 536-X-8-.02
Medical records of persons with STDs, Ala. Code § 22-11A-22
Notifications of third parties of disease, Ala. Code § 22-11A-38
Patient Care Reporting, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-2-1-.13
Patient Medical Records, Ala. Code § 34-24-504
Rehab Centers: General, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-11-.01
Statewide Cancer Registry--Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-7-3-.05
Confidentiality and disclosure requirements of peer review information (Cross reference to Medical Peer Review) Board of Medical Examiners: Confidentiality of Records, Ala. Admin. Code r. 540-X-9-.12
Confidentiality and disclosure requirements of public health reporting information (disease specific information/registry data) (Cross reference to Public Health Reporting) Confidentiality of Immunization Registry, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-6-2-.08
Confidentiality of information, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-7-5-.04
Confidentiality of Information, Ala. Code § 22-11A-116
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-2-2-.13
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-7-4-.07
Confidentiality; Disclosure of Information, Ala. Code § 22-11C-7
Information to be Confidential, Ala. Code § 22-13-33
Reporting to State Health Officer--Confidentiality, Ala. Code § 22-11A-69
Statewide Cancer Registry--Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-7-3-.05
Insurer and Medicaid/Medicare confidentiality requirements, including disclosure laws (Cross reference Medicaid Data, Medicare data, and private insurance data requirements) Confidentiality of Medical Information, Ala. Code § 27-21A-25
Confidentiality of Medical Information, Ala. Code § 27-21A-25
Confidentiality of Medical Information, Ala. Code § 27-21A-25
Information Release-- Medicaid, Ala. Code § 22-11B-3
Medicaid: Confidential Materials, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-27-.01
Medicaid: Confidential materials, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-27-.02
Standards for Utilization Review Agents, Ala. Code § 27-3A-5
Other Confidentiality of quality assurance materials, Ala. Code § 22-21-8
Privacy and Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-4-5-.08
Patient’s right to confidentiality of medical records/medical information Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-35.12
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-36-.10
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-40-.07
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-44-.09
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-54-.08
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-57-.12
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-58-.09
Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-61-.08
Home and community based living: Confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-52-.11
Hospice care: confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-51-.14
Medicaid rehab services: confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-47-.10
Preventative health education: confidentiality, Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-50-.07
Psychologists code of conduct, Ala. Admin. Code r. 750-X-6, Appendix II
Disclosure requirements (what providers can disclose, prohibition on further disclosure) Department of Mental Health: Availability of Forms and Records, Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-1-1-.10
Patient Care Reporting, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-2-1-.13
Psychologists code of conduct, Ala. Admin. Code r. 750-X-6, Appendix II
Violations of confidentiality; penalties Medical records of persons with STDs, Ala. Code § 22-11A-22
Notifications of third parties of disease, Ala. Code § 22-11A-38
Disclosure of medical information for research purposes (Cross reference Research) State Health Statistical Agency Records, Ala. Admin. Code r. 410-1-3-.06