Montana Code 27-6-302. Contents of application — waiver of confidentiality of medical and dental records
27-6-302. Contents of application — waiver of confidentiality of medical and dental records. The application must contain the following:
Terms Used In Montana Code 27-6-302
- Health care provider: means a physician, a dentist, a podiatrist, or a health care facility. See Montana Code 27-6-103
- Hospital: means a hospital as defined in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 27-6-103
- Malpractice claim: means a claim or potential claim of a claimant against a health care provider for medical or dental treatment, lack of medical or dental treatment, or other alleged departure from accepted standards of health care that proximately results in damage to the claimant, whether the claimant's claim or potential claim sounds in tort or contract, and includes but is not limited to allegations of battery or wrongful death. See Montana Code 27-6-103
- Panel: means the Montana medical legal panel provided for in 27-6-104. See Montana Code 27-6-103
(1)a statement in reasonable detail of the elements of the health care provider‘s conduct that are believed to constitute a malpractice claim, the dates on which the conduct occurred, and the names and addresses of all physicians, dentists, podiatrists, and hospitals having contact with the claimant and all witnesses;
(2)a statement authorizing the panel to obtain access to all medical, dental, podiatric, and hospital records and information pertaining to the claim and, for the purposes of its consideration of this matter only, waiving any privilege as to the contents of those records. The statement may not in any way be construed as waiving that privilege for any other purpose or in any other context, in or out of court.