Tennessee § 63-32-115 - Compiling and dissemination of information — Liability of the department of health.

§ 63-32-115. Compiling and dissemination of information — Liability of the department of health.

Under this chapter, the department of health only compiles information. The department shall not vouch for or assert the accuracy of any information it disseminates under this chapter. Before the department disseminates information to consumers under this chapter, the department shall permit each provider, hospital, or managed care organization, whose information is to be disseminated, the opportunity to review and correct any information the department proposes to disseminate. The department shall also allow a collaborating physician at any time the opportunity to review, accept, and update the existence of a collaborating relationship between the physician and a physician assistant licensed under § 63-19-105. The department shall also allow a collaborating physician at any time the opportunity to review, accept, and update the existence of a collaborating relationship between the physician and the holder of a certificate of fitness pursuant to § 63-7-123. On or after January 1, 2015, the collaborative relationship contained in the controlled substance database, as established in title 53, chapter 10, part 3, shall be used by the department to update provider profiles which have been established pursuant to this chapter. The department shall not be subject to any suit for damages concerning any information that the department disseminates that a provider, hospital, managed care organization, collaborating physician, or supervisory physician had the opportunity to correct, but did not correct. Nothing contained in this section shall repeal or override the confidentiality provisions contained in title 53, chapter 10, part 3, except to the extent that the department uses the information to update the existence of: A collaborating relationship between a physician and a holder of a certificate of fitness pursuant to § 63-7-123; or A collaborating relationship between a physician and a physician assistant licensed under § 63-19-105. Acts 1998, ch. 1073, § 15; 2014, ch. 898, § 2; T.C.A § 63-51-115 ; Acts 2017, ch. 334, §§ 9-11; 2018, ch. 610, §§ 34-36. Compiler's Notes. Former § 63-51-115 was transferred to this section by the authority of the Code Commission in 2017. For the Preamble to the act relative to the relationship between physicians and advanced practice registered nurses, please refer to Acts 2017, ch. 334. Amendments. The 2017 amendment, in (a), rewrote the present next to last sentence which read: “The department shall also allow a supervising physician at any time the opportunity to review, accept, and update the existence of a supervisory relationship between the physician and a physician assistant licensed under § 63-19-105 .”, and added the last sentence; inserted “collaborating physician,” in (c); and rewrote (d) which read: “Nothing contained in this section shall repeal or override the confidentiality provisions contained in title 53, chapter 10, part 3, except to the extent that the department uses the information to update the existence of a supervisory relationship between a physician and a holder of a certificate of fitness pursuant to § 63-7-123 or a physician assistant licensed under § 63-19-105 .” The 2018 amendment substituted “a physician assistant licensed under § 63-19-105 ” for “the holder of a certificate of fitness pursuant to § 63-7-123 ” at the end of the fourth sentence in (a); substituted “collaborative relationship” for “supervisory relationship” in (b) and substituted “collaborating” for “supervisory” in (d)(2). Effective Dates. Acts 2017, ch. 334, § 15. July 1, 2017. Acts 2018, ch. 610, § 42. July 1, 2018.