Indiana Code 16-41-10-4. Disclosure of exposure to communicable disease; treatment and counseling
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Sec. 4. (a) A medical director or physician notified under section 3 of this chapter shall, not more than forty-eight (48) hours after receiving the notification under section 3 of this chapter, contact the emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement officer described in section 2 of this chapter to do the following:
(2) Provide for any medically necessary treatment and counseling to the emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement officer.
(1) Explain, without disclosing information about the patient, the serious communicable disease to which the emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement officer was exposed.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-41-10-4
- emergency medical services provider: means a firefighter, a law enforcement officer, a paramedic, an emergency medical technician, a physician licensed under Indiana Code 16-41-10-1
(b) Expenses of testing or treatment and counseling are the responsibility of the emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or the provider’s or law enforcement officer’s employer.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-45-7.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.186-1995, SEC.18; P.L.212-2003, SEC.10; P.L.131-2018, SEC.4; P.L.112-2020, SEC.48.