4.__Immunity from liability.__A dispenser is immune from liability for disclosure of information if the disclosure was made pursuant to and in accordance with this chapter.

§7250.__Access to prescription monitoring information and

confidentiality

1.__Confidentiality.__Except as provided in this section, prescription monitoring information submitted to the office is confidential and is not a public record as defined in Title 1, section 402, subsection 3.

2.__Review of information.__If the prescription monitoring information surpasses thresholds as established by the office, the office shall notify the prescriber, the dispenser and, if the office determines it to be necessary, the professional licensing entity and provide all relevant prescription monitoring information to those persons and entities through an established letter of notification.

3.__Permissible disclosure of information.__The office may provide prescription monitoring information for public research, policy or education purposes as long as all information reasonably likely to reveal the patient or other person who is the subject of the information has been removed.

4.__Access to information. The following persons may access prescription monitoring information:

A.__A prescriber, insofar as the information relates to a patient under the prescriber's care;

B.__A dispenser, insofar as the information relates to a customer of the dispenser seeking to have a prescription filled;

C.__The executive director, or a board investigator as designated by each board, of the state boards of licensure of podiatric medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, medicine,

osteopathy, veterinary medicine, nursing or other boards representing health care disciplines whose licensees are prescribers, as required for an investigation, with reasonable cause;