                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMERGENCIES; EXTENSIONS; ACCESS TO AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC
MEDICAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION (§ 32.1-137.12)

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

B. An entity shall promptly review a request from the covered person, his
representative, or his provider for an extension of the original approved
duration of health care or hospitalization. If the entity fails to confirm that
termination of health care or hospitalization will occur on the original date
authorized, the entity shall review retrospectively whether the extension of
health care or hospitalization was medically appropriate.

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

HISTORY: 1998, c. 891.