2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 35 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 2 - HOSPITALS, HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AND HEALTH SERVICES
35-2-606. Disclosure of health care information by hospital.

(a) Except as authorized in W.S. 35-2-609, a hospital or an agent or employee of a hospital shall not disclose any hospital health care information about a patient to any other person without the patient's written authorization. A disclosure made under a patient's written authorization shall conform to the terms of that authorization.

(b) A hospital shall maintain, in conjunction with a patient's recorded health care information, a record of each person who has received or examined, in whole or in part, the recorded health care information during the next preceding three (3) years, except for a person who has examined the recorded health care information under W.S. 35-2-609(a)(i) through (iii) or (c), or a third party payor for whom authorization for release of information has been granted. The record of disclosure shall include the name, address and institutional affiliation, if any, of each person receiving or examining the recorded health care information, the date of the receipt or examination and, to the extent practicable, a description of the information disclosed.