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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58800</law_id><section_number>54.1-2406</section_number><catch_line>Treatment records of practitioners</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="24">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>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:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> In a disciplinary <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> before a health regulatory board or in any subsequent <span class="dictionary">trial</span> or <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> of a board action or <span class="dictionary">order</span>; <a id="paragraph-215438" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2406/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> To licensing or disciplinary authorities of other <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span> or to hospital committees located within or outside this Commonwealth which are concerned with granting, limiting, or denying a physician hospital <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> if a final determination regarding disciplinary action has been made; or <a id="paragraph-215439" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2406/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Pursuant to an <span class="dictionary">order</span> of a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of competent <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>. <a id="paragraph-215440" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2406/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1992, c. 808.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
