Ohio Code 1751.52 – Confidentiality of information
(A) All applications, filings, and reports required under this chapter shall be treated as public documents after the date the application, filing, or report becomes effective, regardless of the application of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act set forth in sections 1333.61 to 1333.69 of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1751.52
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Corporation: means a corporation formed under Chapter 1701. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Enrollee: means any natural person who is entitled to receive health care benefits provided by a health insuring corporation. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Health care facility: means any facility, except a health care practitioner's office, that provides preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, acute convalescent, rehabilitation, mental health, intellectual disability, intermediate care, or skilled nursing services. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Health insuring corporation: means a corporation, as defined in division (H) of this section, that, pursuant to a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement, pays for, reimburses, or provides, delivers, arranges for, or otherwise makes available, basic health care services, supplemental health care services, or specialty health care services, or a combination of basic health care services and either supplemental health care services or specialty health care services, through either an open panel plan or a closed panel plan. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Provider: means any natural person or partnership of natural persons who are licensed, certified, accredited, or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services, or any professional association organized under Chapter 1785 of the Revised Code, provided that nothing in this chapter or other provisions of law shall be construed to preclude a health insuring corporation, health care practitioner, or organized health care group associated with a health insuring corporation from employing certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, pharmacists, dietitians, physician assistants, dental assistants, dental hygienists, optometric technicians, or other allied health personnel who are licensed, certified, accredited, or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(B) Any data or information pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, or health of any enrollee or applicant for enrollment that is obtained by the health insuring corporation from the enrollee or applicant, or from any health care facility or provider, shall be held in confidence and shall not be disclosed to any person except under one of the following circumstances:
(1) To the extent that it may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
(2) Upon the express consent of the enrollee or applicant;
(3) Pursuant to statute or court order for the production of evidence;
(4) In the event of claim litigation between such person and the health insuring corporation wherein such data or information is pertinent.
(C) A health insuring corporation shall be entitled to claim any statutory privileges against disclosure under division (B) of this section that the facility or provider who furnished the data or information to the health insuring corporation is entitled to claim.