{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-70.02.020","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 70.02.020","heading":"Disclosure by health care provider.","body":"(1) Except as authorized elsewhere in this chapter, a health care provider, an individual who assists a health care provider in the delivery of health care, or an agent and employee of a health care provider may not disclose 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 must conform to the authorization.\n(2) A patient has a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of health care information made by a health care provider or a health care facility in the six years before the date on which the accounting is requested, except for disclosures:\n(a) To carry out treatment, payment, and health care operations;\n(b) To the patient of health care information about him or her;\n(c) Incident to a use or disclosure that is otherwise permitted or required;\n(d) Pursuant to an authorization where the patient authorized the disclosure of health care information about himself or herself;\n(e) Of directory information;\n(f) To persons involved in the patient's care;\n(g) For national security or intelligence purposes if an accounting of disclosures is not permitted by law;\n(h) To correctional institutions or law enforcement officials if an accounting of disclosures is not permitted by law; and\n(i) Of a limited data set that excludes direct identifiers of the patient or of relatives, employers, or household members of the patient.","path":["Title 70","Chapter 70.02"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70.02.020","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T03:49:22Z","sha256":"9e4f0d9d075096a6f1fab450238205eb6a11125792210f8cb49ad6397a125ad8","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-70.02.010","next":"us-wa/rcw-70.02.030"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}