Confidentiality

Individual patient confidentiality shall be protected. 1. The committee shall adopt such procedures as it finds necessary for the protection of patient confidentiality provided that in no case shall data that specifically identify a patient by name or that could be used to identify a patient by name be released to the public, data researchers, or employers. Any provider that is identified in the claims data submitted to the committee may be identified by name and code number in the tabulations released by the committee. 2. The committee may enter into agreements with data users, researchers, and employers for the release of data in other than final published form. The committee shall establish within these agreements appropriate safeguards regarding the release of such data so that individual patients will not be identified.