32.1-137.12 - Emergencies; extensions; access to and confidentiality of patient-specific medical records and information. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-137.12. Emergencies; extensions; access to and confidentiality ofpatient-specific medical records and information.

A. For emergency health care, authorization may be requested by the coveredperson, his representative, or his provider either within forty-eight hoursof or by the end of the first business day following the rendering of theemergency health care, whichever is later.

B. An entity shall promptly review a request from the covered person, hisrepresentative, or his provider for an extension of the original approvedduration of health care or hospitalization. If the entity fails to confirmthat termination of health care or hospitalization will occur on the originaldate authorized, the entity shall review retrospectively whether theextension of health care or hospitalization was medically appropriate.

C. Each entity shall have reasonable access to patient-specific medicalrecords and information.

(1998, c. 891.)