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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 3567

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

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 AND YOUNGBLOOD,
           APRIL 7, 2008

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
           APRIL 7, 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 test results of diagnostic imaging services performed on the
    21  patient within five days of sending the test results to the
    22  patient's physician.
    23  Section 4.  Effective date.
    24     This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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