                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TREATMENT RECORDS OF PRACTITIONERS (§ 54.1-2406)

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: 1992, c. 808.