54.1-2406 - Treatment records of practitioners. - Virginia Statutes

§ 54.1-2406. Treatment records of practitioners.

No records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of anypractitioner of any profession regulated by any of the regulatory boardswithin the Department of Health Professions obtained by the Department or anyhealth regulatory board from a health care provider or facility that istreating or has treated such practitioner for drug addiction or chronicalcoholism shall be disclosed except:

1. In a disciplinary hearing before a health regulatory board or in anysubsequent trial or appeal of a board action or order;

2. To licensing or disciplinary authorities of other jurisdictions or tohospital committees located within or outside this Commonwealth which areconcerned with granting, limiting, or denying a physician hospital privilegesif a final determination regarding disciplinary action has been made; or

3. Pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(1992, c. 808.)