Although laboratories may directly provide patients access to lab data beginning today under the rule, laboratory providers have until Octoto comply with the rule’s requirement to provide lab data upon request nationwide. Patients can begin to view lab results today under the rule. In combination, these changes require laboratories to provide patients access to their test reports. Department of Health and Human Services amends the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations to give patients (or their representatives) direct access to the patient’s laboratory test reports and eliminates an exception under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule that prohibits an individual from accessing protected health information held by a CLIA-certified or CLIA-exempt laboratory. Under a federal rule that goes into effect, patients in all 50 states and the District of Columbia can now view test results from diagnostic information service providers without first being authorized by a physician. Quest Diagnostics provides diagnostic information services to about 30% of American adults each year. MADISON, NJ – For the first time, Americans nationwide can directly access their personal laboratory data through Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services. Patients Nationwide Now Have Access to Their Lab Test Results

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