§ 54.1-2406 Treatment records of practitioners
No records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any practitioner of any profession regulated by any of the regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions obtained by the Department or any health regulatory board from a health care provider or facility that is treating or has treated such practitioner for drug addiction or chronic alcoholism shall be disclosed except:
1. In a disciplinary hearing before a health regulatory board or in any subsequent trial or appeal of a board action or order;
2. To licensing or disciplinary authorities of other jurisdictions or to hospital committees located within or outside this Commonwealth which are concerned with granting, limiting, or denying a physician hospital privileges if a final determination regarding disciplinary action has been made; or
3. Pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
History
This law was first created in 1992. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 808 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1992 “Acts” aren’t available online.
1992, c. 808.