Mont. Code § 50-9-504

Current through the 2023 Regular Session
Section 50-9-504 - Registry information - confidentiality - transfer of information
(1) The health care declaration registry must be designed to be accessible only by entering a name and access code on the internet website maintained by the attorney general or by the use of a password issued pursuant to subsection (3).
(2) Names and access codes are confidential and may not be disclosed to any person other than the person who submitted the declaration, a person named in the declaration, or a health care provider for whom the person named in the declaration is a qualified patient.
(3)
(a) The attorney general shall issue confidential passwords to attending physicians, attending advanced practice registered nurses, and hospital medical records department staff that allow them to search the health care declaration database for a qualified patient who is unable to communicate health care choices.
(b) The attorney general shall establish by rule procedures for applying for and the issuance of confidential passwords to those persons described in subsection (3)(a).
(4) At the request of a person who submitted a declaration or who is named in the declaration, the attorney general may transmit the information received regarding the declaration to the registry system of another jurisdiction as identified by the requestor.

§ 50-9-504, MCA

En. Sec. 4, Ch. 447, L. 2005.