performed on a patient that is intended to diagnose the presence
or absence of a disease, including, but not limited to, a
malignancy. The term does not include a nonimaging study,
including electrocardiograms, standard EKG treadmill stress
tests, cardiac monitors, pulmonary function tests or similar
tests.
* * *
["Significant abnormality." A finding by a diagnostic
imaging service of an abnormality or anomaly which would cause a
reasonably prudent person to seek additional or follow-up
medical care within three months.]
Section 2. Sections 3(a) and (b) and 4 of the act are
amended to read:
Section 3. Test results.
(a) General rule.--[When, in the judgment of the entity
performing a diagnostic imaging service, a significant
abnormality may exist, the] An entity performing [the] a
diagnostic imaging service shall [directly notify] provide
written notice to the patient or the patient's designee [by
providing notice] that the entity has completed a review of the
test performed on the patient and has sent results to the health
care practitioner who ordered the diagnostic imaging service.
The notice shall include all of the following:
(1) The name of the ordering health care practitioner.
(2) The date the test was performed.
(3) The date the results were sent to the ordering
health care practitioner.
(4) The following statements:
[You are receiving this notice as a result of a
determination by your diagnostic imaging service that
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