{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-70.02.280","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 70.02.280","heading":"Health care providers and facilities—Prohibited actions.","body":"A health care provider, health care facility, and their assistants, employees, agents, and contractors may not:\n(1) Use or disclose health care information for marketing or fund-raising purposes, unless permitted by federal law; or\n(2) Sell health care information to a third party, except:\n(a) For purposes of treatment or payment;\n(b) For purposes of sale, transfer, merger, or consolidation of a business;\n(c) For purposes of remuneration to a third party for services;\n(d) As disclosures are required by law;\n(e) For purposes of providing access to or accounting of disclosures to an individual;\n(f) For public health purposes;\n(g) For research;\n(h) With an individual's authorization;\n(i) Where a reasonable cost-based fee is paid to prepare and transmit health information, where authority to disclose the information is provided in this chapter; or\n(j) In a format that is deidentified and aggregated.","path":["Title 70","Chapter 70.02"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70.02.280","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T03:49:22Z","sha256":"bae1b9d78cfd6a540f9a1da6b8191b03d0e11c5043d6ce8a76014b73da894daf","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-70.02.270","next":"us-wa/rcw-70.02.290"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}