Confidentiality of Health Care Communications and Information Act

Rhode Island's general medical privacy law. It bars providers and anyone who receives patient information from releasing or re-disclosing confidential health care information without the patient's written consent on a compliant form, subject to listed exceptions such as emergencies, treatment coordination, insurers, research without identification and certain law-enforcement reports. It also gives patients rights to have adverse-decision records sent to a physician, to seek amendment, and to have insurers send communications to an address they choose.