Law / Canada / New Brunswick
Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act, use of the Medicare number
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Disclosure
As of .
What it requires
- These duties bind any person, not only a custodian.
- Do not require the production of an individual's Medicare number, or collect or use it, unless you need it for the provision of health care, to verify eligibility for a health care program or service, for the payment and management of the health care system, to verify eligibility for the drug insurance plan, to obtain proof of immunization, or to establish or maintain the immunization registry or the notifiable disease registry (s. 48 (1)).
- If you are a public body, you may also collect and use a Medicare number, including to perform data matching, for a research project approved by a research review body or in accordance with an agreement referred to in paragraph 43.1 (a), and for a purpose prescribed by regulation (s. 48 (1.1)-(1.2)).
- If you request a Medicare number, advise the individual of your authority to do so; the individual may refuse to provide it to a person not authorized to require, collect or use it (s. 48 (2)-(3)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
No person may require the production of an individual's Medicare number or collect or use it, except a person that requires its production, collection or use for the provision of health care, to verify eligibility for a health care program or service, for the payment and management of the health care system, to verify eligibility for the drug insurance plan, to obtain proof of immunization, or to establish or maintain the immunization registry or the notifiable disease registry.
A public body may collect and use a Medicare number, including to perform data matching, for a research project approved by a research review body or in accordance with an agreement referred to in paragraph 43.1 (a). A public body may also collect and use a Medicare number for a purpose prescribed by regulation. An individual may refuse to provide his or her Medicare number to any person not authorized to require its production or to collect or use it.
A person who requests a Medicare number from an individual shall advise the individual of his or her authority to do so. The Act was proclaimed and came into force on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app handles health records.