O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-33-4 (2019)

Mental health records

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The provisions of this chapter, except as otherwise provided in Code Sections 31-33-3, 31-33-7, and 31-33-8, shall not apply to psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health records of a patient.

History

Code 1981, § 31-32-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1680, § 1; Code 1981, § 31-33-4, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31; Ga. L. 2010, p. 286, § 18/SB 244; Ga. L. 2016, p. 549, § 2/HB 910.

Annotations

Cross references. - Right of mental patients to examine medical records, §§ 37-3-162, 37-3-167.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 2009–2019 · leading case: Cooksey v. Landry, 761 S.E.2d 61 (Ga. 2014).

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Cooksey v. Landry, 761 S.E.2d 61 (Ga. 2014). · cites it 16× “See OCGA § 31-33-4 (providing that statutes authorizing the release of health records to a deceased patient’s representative “shall not apply to psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health records of a patient”); OCGA § 37-3-166 (a) (8.”

Alvista Healthcare Ctr., Inc. v. Miller, 686 S.E.2d 96 (Ga. 2009). · cites it 4× “However, the statute permits her to obtain all types of medical records, other than mental health records as excepted by OCGA § 31-33-4, and subject to the preservation in OCGA § 31-33-6 of the privileged or confidential nature of communications recognized in other laws.”

Advantage Behavioral Health Sys. v. Eric Cleveland, as Adm'r of the Est. of Nicholas Cleveland, 829 S.E.2d 763 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 31-33-4 (providing that statutes authorizing the release of health records to a deceased patient's representative "shall not apply to psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health records of a patient"); OCGA § 37-3-166 (a) (8.”

Cooksey v. Landry (Ga. 2014). · cites it 8× “1) (authorizing mental health facilities to release a deceased patient’s mental health records “to the legal representative of [the] deceased patient’s estate, except for matters privileged under the laws of this state.”

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