Pennsylvania Code
Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part III - Prevention of Diseases
Chapter 27 - COMMUNICABLE AND NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Subchapter B - REPORTING OF DISEASES, INFECTIONS AND CONDITIONS
DISEASES AND CONDITIONS REQUIRING SPECIAL REPORTING
Section 27.32d - Department authority to require complete reporting

The Department will have access to and may review the patient records of health care practitioners, hospitals, persons providing HIV services and persons in charge of entities providing HIV services, who make diagnoses of AIDS, or who receive or provide HIV test results, CD4 T-lymphocyte counts or percentages, HIV viral load test results including detectable and undetectable test results, or HIV genotype test results. Access and review will enable the Department to conduct case investigations, to determine whether under-reporting is occurring, to investigate reporting delays and to investigate other reporting problems.

The provisions of this §27.32d adopted under section 16(b) of the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955 (35 P.S. § 521.16(b)); sections 2102(g), 2106(a) and 2111(b) of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P.S. §§ 532(g), 536(a) and 541(b)); and section 803 of the Health Care Facilities Act (35 P.S. § 448.803); amended under section 16(a) and (b) of the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955 (35 P.S. § 521.16(a) and (b)); sections 2102(g), 2106(a) and 2111(b) of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P.S. §§ 532(g), 536(a) and 541(b)); and section 803 of the Health Care Facilities Act (35 P.S. § 448.803).