| (a) An HCC must establish and administer procedures
and internal controls to safeguard and ensure against the sharing
of any confidential information with or among participants.
(b) The requirements of this section include establishing
and enforcing collection, custodial, retrieval, and transmittal procedures
to ensure that information that the HCC or its participants must maintain
as confidential is protected as confidential both as to entities and
individuals outside the HCC, and between or among participants. The
requirements of this section apply to confidential information that:
(1) the HCC maintains as custodian; or
(2) the HCC or any of its participants submit to the
department under Insurance Code §848.057 or to the attorney general
under Insurance Code §848.059.
|
