SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2639
PRINTER'S NO. 4107
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1884
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY M. QUINN, TOEPEL, HICKERNELL, WATSON, MILLARD,
PICKETT, PHILLIPS-HILL, GILLEN, SCHWEYER, DeLUCA, BAKER,
BOBACK, EVERETT, B. O'NEILL, KAUFER, GROVE, KORTZ, ENGLISH,
HARPER, TALLMAN, DAVIS AND DOWLING, OCTOBER 25, 2017
SENATOR BAKER, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
AN ACT
Providing for summaries or copies NOTIFICATION of patient test
results to be sent directly to a patient or the patient's
designee when there is a finding of a significant
abnormality; and providing for duties of the Department of
Health.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Patient Test
Result Information Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Diagnostic imaging service." A medical imaging test
performed on a patient that is intended to diagnose the presence
or absence of a disease, including, but not limited to, a
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