Required Reporting to Public Health

Physicians must report these diseases and conditions to the county local health department, according to the North Carolina Administrative Code: 10A NCAC 41A.0101 Reportable Diseases and Conditions (CLICK HERE) . Contact information for local health departments can be accessed at www.ncalhd.org/directors. If you are unable to contact your local health department, call the 24/7 pager for NCDHHS, Communicable Disease Branch (919) 733-3419.

For diseases and conditions required to be reported within 24 hours, the initial report shall be made by telephone to the local health department, and the written disease report be made within 7 days.

The reportable disease timeframe can be accessed here.

You may be contacted by the local health department for additional information about this case. Medical record information relevant to the investigation and/or control of a communicable disease is exempt from the HIPAA Privacy Rule (see 45 CFR 164.512(a) ) and is permitted as an exception to confidentiality of records in NC State Law GS § 130 A-130.

North Carolina General Statute: §130A-135. Physicians to report.
A physician licensed to practice medicine who has reason to suspect that a person about whom the physician has been consulted professionally has a communicable disease or communicable condition declared by the Commission to be reported, shall report information required by the Commission to the local health director of the county or district in which the physician is consulted.

North Carolina Administrative Code: 10A NCAC 41A.0101 Reportable Diseases and Conditions
(a) The following named diseases and conditions are declared to be dangerous to the public health and are hereby made reportable within the time period specified after the disease or condition is reasonably suspected to exist:

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