Bill Text: IA HF2009 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the disclosure of personal identifying information of prescribing practitioners contained in the information program for drug prescribing and dispensing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - Introduced, referred to Human Resources. H.J. 71. [HF2009 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HF2009-Introduced.html
House File 2009 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY ISENHART A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the disclosure of personal identifying 2 information of prescribing practitioners contained in the 3 information program for drug prescribing and dispensing. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5252HH (5) 87 ss/rh PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 124.553, subsections 2 and 3, Code 2018, 1 2 are amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. The board shall maintain a record of each person that 1 4 requests information from the program. Pursuant to rules 1 5 adopted by the board and advisory council under section 1 6 124.554, the board may use the records to document and report 1 7 statistical information, and may provide program information 1 8 for statistical, public research, public policy, or educational 1 9 purposes, after removing personal identifying information of a 1 10 patient,prescribing practitioner,dispenser, or other person 1 11 who is identified in the information, except that the fact of 1 12 a prescribing practitioner's registration to access program 1 13 information pursuant to board rules shall not be removed. 1 14 3. a.InformationExcept as otherwise provided in paragraph 1 15 "b", information contained in the program and any information 1 16 obtained from it, and information contained in the records 1 17 of requests for information from the program, is privileged 1 18 and strictly confidential information. Such information is a 1 19 confidential public record pursuant to section 22.7, and is 1 20 not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal 1 21 compulsion for release except as provided in this subchapter. 1 22 Information from the program shall not be released, shared with 1 23 an agency or institution, or made public except as provided in 1 24 this subchapter. 1 25 b. The fact of a prescribing practitioner's registration 1 26 to access program information pursuant to board rules is not 1 27 privileged or confidential and is not a confidential public 1 28 record pursuant to section 22.7. Such information shall be 1 29 subject to discovery, subpoena, and other means of legal 1 30 compulsion for release. 1 31 Sec. 2. Section 124.555, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 1 32 2018, is amended to read as follows: 1 33 a. Ensuring the confidentiality of the patient, prescribing 1 34 practitioner,and dispensing pharmacist and pharmacy. 1 35 EXPLANATION 2 1 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 2 2 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 2 3 This bill allows the board of pharmacy to release the fact of 2 4 a prescribing practitioner's registration to access information 2 5 contained in the information program for prescribing and 2 6 dispensing, known as the prescription monitoring program, when 2 7 reporting program information for statistical, public research, 2 8 public policy, or educational purposes. The bill also excludes 2 9 the fact of a prescribing practitioner's registration from 2 10 the privilege and confidentiality protections provided to 2 11 other information in the program. The bill does not alter the 2 12 confidential nature of personal identifying information of 2 13 patients, dispensers, or others identified in the program. LSB 5252HH (5) 87 ss/rh
