A health care provider, health care facility, and their assistants, employees, agents, and contractors may not:
(1) Use or disclose health care information for marketing or fund-raising purposes, unless permitted by federal law; or(2) Sell health care information to a third party, except:(a) For purposes of treatment or payment;(b) For purposes of sale, transfer, merger, or consolidation of a business;(c) For purposes of remuneration to a third party for services;(d) As disclosures are required by law;(e) For purposes of providing access to or accounting of disclosures to an individual;(f) For public health purposes;(h) With an individual's authorization;(i) Where a reasonable cost-based fee is paid to prepare and transmit health information, where authority to disclose the information is provided in this chapter; or(j) In a format that is deidentified and aggregated. 2014 c 220 § 11; 2013 c 200 § 12.Effective date- 2014 c 220 : See note following RCW 70.02.290.
Effective date- 2013 c 200 : See note following RCW 70.02.010.