(1) Except as authorized elsewhere in this chapter, a health care provider, an individual who assists a health care provider in the delivery of health care, or an agent and employee of a health care provider may not disclose health care information about a patient to any other person without the patient's written authorization. A disclosure made under a patient's written authorization must conform to the authorization. (2) A patient has a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of health care information made by a health care provider or a health care facility in the six years before the date on which the accounting is requested, except for disclosures: (a) To carry out treatment, payment, and health care operations; (b) To the patient of health care information about him or her; (c) Incident to a use or disclosure that is otherwise permitted or required; (d) Pursuant to an authorization where the patient authorized the disclosure of health care information about himself or herself; (e) Of directory information; (f) To persons involved in the patient's care; (g) For national security or intelligence purposes if an accounting of disclosures is not permitted by law; (h) To correctional institutions or law enforcement officials if an accounting of disclosures is not permitted by law; and (i) Of a limited data set that excludes direct identifiers of the patient or of relatives, employers, or household members of the patient.
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