{"data":{"id":"us-mt/50-16-526","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"50-16-526","heading":"Patient authorization to health care provider for disclosure.","body":"(1) A patient may authorize a health care provider to disclose the patient's health care information. A health care provider shall honor an authorization and, if requested, provide a copy of the recorded health care information unless the health care provider denies the patient access to health care information under 50-16-542.\n(2) A health care provider may charge a reasonable fee, not to exceed the fee provided for in 50-16-540, and is not required to honor an authorization until the fee is paid.\n(3) To be valid, a disclosure authorization to a health care provider must:\n(a) be in writing, dated, and signed by the patient;\n(b) identify the nature of the information to be disclosed; and\n(c) identify the person to whom the information is to be disclosed.\n(4) Except as provided by this part, the signing of an authorization by a patient is not a waiver of any rights a patient has under other statutes, the Montana Rules of Evidence, or common law.","path":["TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY","CHAPTER 16. HEALTH CARE INFORMATION","Part 5. Uniform Health Care Information"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0500/chapter_0160/part_0050/section_0260/0500-0160-0050-0260.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:56:16Z","sha256":"d0afc47bbda9808f153904795fef3dbc3d7e67b8a95394ee46845fca297c8cfd","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/50-16-525","next":"us-mt/50-16-527"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}