Section 27.32d. Department authority to require complete reporting

The Department will have access to and may review the patient records of physicians, hospitals, persons providing HIV services and persons in charge of entities providing HIV services, who make diagnoses of AIDS, or who receive or provide HIV and CD4 T-lymphocyte test results. Access and review will enable the Department to conduct case investigations, to determine whether under-reporting is occurring, to investigate reporting delays and to investigate other reporting problems.

The provisions of this § 27.32d adopted July 19, 2002, effective July 20, 2002, 32 Pa.B. 3597.

Notation

Authority

The provisions of this § 27.32d adopted under section 16(b) of the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955 (35 P. S. § 521.16(b)); sections 2102(g), 2106(a) and 2111(b) of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § § 532(g), 536(a) and 541(b)); and section 803 of the Health Care Facilities Act (35 P. S. § 448.803).