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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".07" citation="COMAR 10.47.07.07" title_num="10" subtitle_num="47" chapter_num="07" heading="Confidentiality.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Prescription monitoring data and naloxone medication data are confidential, privileged, not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion in civil litigation, and are not public records.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The Program shall ensure that confidential or privileged patient information be kept confidential and that records or information protected by a privilege between a health care provider and a patient, or otherwise required by law to be held confidential, be filed in a manner that, except as otherwise provided in Health-General Article, §21-2A-06, Annotated Code of Maryland, and Regulation .04 of this chapter, does not disclose the identity of the person protected.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The Program shall periodically conduct an audit review of prescription monitoring data and naloxone medication data and disclosure requests to ensure compliance with §B of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>