RCW 70.02.280 — Health care providers and facilities—Prohibited actions.

A health care provider, health care facility, and their assistants, employees, agents, and contractors may not:

1. (1) Use or disclose health care information for marketing or fund-raising purposes, unless permitted by federal law; or

2. (2) Sell health care information to a third party, except:

   1. (a) For purposes of treatment or payment;
   2. (b) For purposes of sale, transfer, merger, or consolidation of a business;
   3. (c) For purposes of remuneration to a third party for services;
   4. (d) As disclosures are required by law;
   5. (e) For purposes of providing access to or accounting of disclosures to an individual;
   6. (f) For public health purposes;
   7. (g) For research;
   8. (h) With an individual's authorization;
   9. (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
   10. (j) In a format that is deidentified and aggregated.

[ 2014 c 220 s 11; 2013 c 200 s 12.]

Notes:

Effective date—2014 c 220: See note following RCW 70.02.290.

Effective date—2013 c 200: See note following RCW 70.02.010.