NAC457.110. Disclosure of information: Authorized recipients; verification of identity.

     1. The State Health Officer or person employed in the registry shall not disclose the existence or nonexistence in the registry of a record concerning any patient or disclose other information about the patient except to:

     (a) The physician who treated the patient;

     (b) The health care facility where the patient was treated;

     (c) A health care facility or a registry connected with that facility which has participated or is participating in treating the patient; or

     (d) A qualified researcher in cancer.

     2. If a request for information about a patient is made over the telephone by the physician who treated the patient or by a representative of the health care facility in which the patient was treated, and the caller is not known to the employee who receives the call at the registry, the employee must verify the identity of the caller in the manner described in NAC 457.130.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 12-3-84; A 10-22-93)