2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 11 - Public Health, Housing, Environment
Chapter 438 - Laboratories; Anatomical Material
Section 438.430 - Examination, specimens; reports and results.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 438.010 to 438.510, a clinical laboratory shall examine specimens only at the request of a physician, dentist, or other person authorized by law to use the findings of laboratory examinations.

(2) A person may not report the result of any test, examination, or analysis of a specimen submitted for evidence of human disease except to:

(a) The patient; and

(b) A physician, dentist, their agents, or other person authorized by law to employ the results thereof in the conduct of a practice or in the fulfillment of official duties.

(3) A clinical laboratory shall provide the results of a test, examination or analysis of a specimen submitted by a patient in writing to the patient:

(a) Not sooner than seven days after receiving a request for the results from the patient; or

(b) Immediately upon receiving authorization from the doctor, dentist or other person who requested the test, examination or analysis to provide the results to the patient.

[1969 c.685 §21; 2001 c.104 §174; 2003 c.376 §1; 2009 c.583 §1]