§ 63-3102.3. Patient disclosure relating to advanced directives forms and registry.

A.  The State Department of Health shall prepare, and from time to time amend, a disclosure statement designed to inform patients of the availability of the advance directive forms on the Department’s website and of the option of filing executed advance directives with the Department’s advance directives registry.  The Department shall make the current disclosure statement available on the Department’s website and shall inform the entities specified in subsection B of this section of the availability of the disclosure statement and how to obtain the disclosure statement.

B.  Any entity to which the requirements of 42 U.S.C., Section 1395cc(f) or of 42 U.S.C., Section 1396a(w) apply shall, at the time of providing the written information required by 42 U.S.C., Section 1395cc(f)(1)(A)(i) or 42 U.S.C., Section 1396a(w)(1)(A)(i), include a copy of the disclosure statement described in subsection A of this section.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 236, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.