Handles health records, in Nebraska

Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-6802, 71-6803 · Read the law's page

• If you are a medical facility or research facility, do not use any genetic sequencer or operational and research software for genetic sequencing that is produced in or by a foreign adversary, a state-owned enterprise of a foreign adversary, a business domiciled in a foreign adversary, or a subsidiary or affiliate of such a business (Neb. Rev. Stat. 71-6802).
• If you possess such a genetic sequencer or software, permanently disable it or remove it from any facility associated with your medical facility or research facility (71-6803).

Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 44-5432 to 44-5444 · Read the law's page

• Do not let an artificial intelligence-based algorithm be the sole basis of a decision to deny, delay, or modify a health care service based, in whole or in part, on medical necessity.
• Disclose to the Department of Insurance, to each health care provider in your network, to each enrollee, and on your public website whether artificial intelligence-based algorithms are used or will be used in the utilization review process.
• Make your automated utilization management system available for audit by the department, which may perform the audit itself or through a third-party entity.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-8401 to 71-8407 · Read the law's page

• If you are a health care provider, give a patient who asks in writing a copy of the patient's medical records not later than thirty days after the request is received (Neb. Rev. Stat. 71-8403(2)).
• On a written request to examine the records, respond as promptly as the circumstances require and no later than ten days after receiving it: make the records available during regular business hours, tell the patient if they do not exist or cannot be found, name the provider that maintains them if known, or explain a delay in writing with the earliest date, not later than twenty-one days after the request (71-8403(3)).
• You may withhold mental health medical records only if a treating physician, psychologist or mental health practitioner determines in professional opinion that release would not be in the patient's best interest, and you must release them if a court order requires it (71-8403(1)).
• Do not charge more than twenty dollars as a handling fee and fifty cents per page as a copying fee for records provided under 71-8403, and charge no fee for records a patient requests in support of the benefit applications and appeals 71-8405(1) lists (71-8404 and 71-8405).