PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3567 PRINTER'S NO. 3958
No. 2434 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY QUINN, WATSON, HARPER, PASHINSKI, CURRY, SONNEY,
REICHLEY, KENNEY, McILVAINE SMITH, ADOLPH, BELFANTI, BEYER,
BOBACK, BOYD, CARROLL, CIVERA, COSTA, CREIGHTON, DALLY,
FABRIZIO, FLECK, GALLOWAY, GERBER, GODSHALL, HENNESSEY,
HERSHEY, JAMES, KILLION, KULA, MOUL, MOYER, MURT, D. O'BRIEN,
O'NEILL, PEIFER, PETRI, PETRONE, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, QUIGLEY,
RAMALEY, SABATINA, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, STEIL, SWANGER,
TANGRETTI, THOMAS, VEREB, WANSACZ, YOUNGBLOOD, PERZEL AND
SCHRODER, APRIL 7, 2008
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 17, 2008
AN ACT
1 Providing for copies of patient test results to be sent directly
2 to patients.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Short title.
6 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Patient Test
7 Result Information Act.
8 Section 2. Definitions.
9 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
10 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
11 context clearly indicates otherwise:
12 "Diagnostic imaging services." Services that include any of
13 the following:
14 (1) Magnetic resonance imaging.
1 (2) Nuclear medicine.
2 (3) Angiography.
3 (4) Arteriography.
4 (5) Computerized axial tomography.
5 (6) Positron emission tomography.
6 (7) Digital vascular imaging.
7 (8) Bronchoscopy.
8 (9) Lymphangiography.
9 (10) Splenography.
10 (11) Ultrasound.
11 (12) EEG.
12 (13) EKG.
13 (14) Nerve conduction studies.
14 (15) Evoked potentials.
15 Section 3. Test results.
16 An entity performing diagnostic imaging services with the
17 exception of routine obstetrical ultrasounds used to monitor the
18 development of a fetus in which no adverse medical condition is
19 diagnosed, shall send directly to the patient a written copy OF <--
20 THE SUMMARY of the test results of diagnostic imaging services
21 performed on the patient within five TEN days of sending the <--
22 test results to the patient's physician. PRESCRIBING PHYSICIAN. <--
23 THE WRITTEN COPY OF THE SUMMARY OF THE TEST RESULTS MAY BE SENT
24 DIRECTLY TO THE PATIENT ELECTRONICALLY BY E-MAIL OR FACSIMILE.
25 Section 4. Effective date.
26 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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