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; (g) For research; (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.
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