§ 3371. Confidentiality of certain records, reports, and information.\n1. No person, who has knowledge by virtue of his or her office of the\nidentity of a particular patient or research subject, a manufacturing\nprocess, a trade secret or a formula shall disclose such knowledge, or\nany report or record thereof, except:\n (a) to another person employed by the department, for purposes of\nexecuting provisions of this article;\n (b) pursuant to judicial subpoena or court order in a criminal\ninvestigation or proceeding;\n (c) to an agency, department of government, or official board\nauthorized to regulate, license or otherwise supervise a person who is\nauthorized by this article to deal in controlled substances, or in the\ncourse of any investigation or proceeding by or before such agency,\ndepartment or board;\n (d) to the prescription monitoring program registry and to authorized\nusers of such registry as set forth in subdivision two of this section;\n (e) to a practitioner to inform him or her that a patient may be under\ntreatment with a controlled substance by another practitioner for the\npurposes of subdivision two of this section, and to facilitate the\ndepartment's review of individual challenges to the accuracy of\ncontrolled substances histories pursuant to subdivision six of section\nthirty-three hundred forty-three-a of this article;\n (f) to a pharmacist to provide information regarding prescriptions for\ncontrolled substances presented to the pharmacist for the purposes of\nsubdivision two of this section and to facilitate the department's\nreview of individual challenges to the accuracy of controlled substances\nhistories pursuant to subdivision six of section thirty-three hundred\nforty-three-a of this article;\n (g) to the deputy attorney general for medicaid fraud control, or his\nor her designee, in furtherance of an investigation of fraud, waste or\nabuse of the Medicaid program, pursuant to an agreement with the\ndepartment;\n (h) to a local health department for the purpose of conducting public\nhealth research or education: (i) pursuant to an agreement with the\ncommissioner; (ii) when the release of such information is deemed\nappropriate by the commissioner; (iii) for use in accordance with\nmeasures required by the commissioner to ensure that the security and\nconfidentiality of the data is protected; and (iv) provided that\ndisclosure is restricted to individuals within the local health\ndepartment who are engaged in the research or education;\n (i) to a medical examiner or coroner who is an officer of or employed\nby a state or local government, pursuant to his or her official duties;\nand\n (j) to an individual for the purpose of providing such individual with\nhis or her own controlled substance history or, in appropriate\ncircumstances, in the case of a patient who lacks capacity to make\nhealth care decisions, a person who has legal authority to make such\ndecisions for the patient and who would have legal access to the\npatient's health care records, if requested from the department pursuant\nto subdivision six of section thirty-three hundred forty-three-a of this\narticle or from a treating practitioner pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of\nparagraph (a) of subdivision two of this section.\n * 2. The prescription monitoring program registry may be accessed,\nunder such terms and conditions as are established by the department for\npurposes of maintaining the security and confidentiality of the\ninformation contained in the registry, by:\n (a) a practitioner, or a designee authorized by such practitioner\npursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section thirty-three\nhundred forty-three-a, section thirty-three hundred sixty-one of this\narticle or section thirty of the cannabis law, for the purposes of: (i)\ninforming the practitioner that a patient may be under treatment with a\ncontrolled substance by another practitioner; (ii) providing the\npractitioner with notifications
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