Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 10325 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Notification(a)Patient notification.--Following the departure of a health care practitioner from an employer, the employer shall notify the health care practitioner's patients seen within the past year of the following:(1) The health care practitioner's departure.(2) If the patient chooses to receive care from the departed health care practitioner or another health care practitioner, how the patient may transfer the patient's health records to a health care practitioner other than with the employer.(3) That the patient may be assigned to a new health care practitioner within the existing employer if the patient chooses to continue receiving care from the employer.(b)Time period.--The employer shall provide the notice within 90 days of the health care practitioner's departure.(c) Applicability.--The notification requirement shall apply to a health care practitioner with an ongoing outpatient relationship with the patient of two or more years.Added by P.L. (number not assigned at time of publication) 2024 No. 74,§ 5, eff. 1/1/2025.