Md. Code Regs. 10.47.07.07

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 25, December 13, 2024

Section 10.47.07.07 - Confidentiality

A. Prescription monitoring data and naloxone medication data are confidential, privileged, not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion in civil litigation, and are not public records.

B. The Program shall ensure that confidential or privileged patient information be kept confidential and that records or information protected by a privilege between a health care provider and a patient, or otherwise required by law to be held confidential, be filed in a manner that, except as otherwise provided in Health-General Article, §21-2 A-06, Annotated Code of Maryland, and Regulation .04 of this chapter, does not disclose the identity of the person protected.

C. The Program shall periodically conduct an audit review of prescription monitoring data and naloxone medication data and disclosure requests to ensure compliance with §B of this regulation.

Md. Code Regs. 10.47.07.07

Regulation .07 amended effective 42:11 Md. R. 725, eff.6/8/2015; amended effective 50:8 Md. R. 338, eff. 7/20/2023