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. Nothing in this article shall be construed to require
disclosure of any of the following:
(a) Contracts, business and marketing strategies, financial
information, and any other competitive and strategic information,
disclosure of which would impair the corporation's ability to
accomplish its primary public benefit purposes by depriving the
corporation of a material or competitive economic benefit or exposing
the corporation to a material competitive or economic risk.
(b) Records that relate to the terms and conditions of contracts
for the provision of health care services, including compliance with
regulatory conditions thereof, with governmental and nongovernmental
insurers, health care providers, health plans, third-party
administrators, management services organizations, self-insured
employers, medical groups, and payers, or any other portion of
contract negotiations, impressions, opinions, recommendations,
meeting minutes, research, work product, theories, or strategy, or
instructions or advice to employees.
(c) Records that relate to reports of a hospital or medical audit
committee or a quality assurance committee or similar reports by
staff of the corporation, accreditation reports, audits, audit
compliance, licensure compliance, insurance and self-insurance
coverage, health care peer review reports, and quality assessments,
including, but not limited to, a review of the credentials of, or the
quality of care rendered by, health care providers in the facilities
of the corporation, or hearings regarding medical staff privileges.
(d) Records the disclosure of which is exempted or prohibited
pursuant to any provision of state or federal law applicable to any
governmental hospital, or any state or federal statute applicable to
a nongovernmental hospital, including, but not limited to, provisions
of the Evidence Code relating to privilege. The corporation shall
identify the provision of law restricting disclosure when relying
upon this exemption.
(e) Real estate appraisals or engineering or feasibility estimates
related to the acquisition or disposition of property or related to
supply and construction contracts, and until all of the contracted
property, supplies, or construction work is obtained. This exemption
from disclosure shall continue until these contracts are final and
agreed to by all parties to the contracts.
(f) Records that relate to collective bargaining or contract
negotiations with represented and unrepresented employees including
discussions of the corporation's available funds and funding
priorities, but only insofar as these discussions relate to the
corporation's ability to conclude the collective bargaining agreement
or contract under discussion. For the purposes of this subdivision,
"employee" shall include an officer, an independent contractor who
functions as an officer or an employee, a physician and surgeon or
other medical professional with medical staff privileges at a health
facility or clinic operated by the corporation, or other person
exercising professional responsibilities as authorized by the
corporation at a health facility or clinic operated by the
corporation, but shall not include other independent contractors.
(g) Medical, personnel, or similar files, the disclosure of which
would constitute an invasion of privacy of an employee, officer,
customer, or patient of the corporation, including, but not limited
to, home addresses, billing records, salaries, and employment
contracts.
(h) Records provided by potential employees, contractors,
physicians and surgeons, or other persons for the use or
consideration of the corporation under a reasonable belief that the
corporation would treat the records supplied as confidential,
including financial statements and proprietary information. A
reasonable belief may be, but need not be, supported by a written
agreement.
(i) Library circulation records.
(j) Any trade secret as defined in subdivision (d) of Section
3426.1 of the Civil Code.
(k) Records relating to the purchase or sale of securities or
other investments, including investments of the corporation in
endowments and pension funds.
( l) Records relating to gifts, devises, bequests, and grants.
(m) Charges or complaints from a member enrolled in a health plan
or any affiliated provider of health care services.
(n) Any record not otherwise expressly exempt from disclosure
under this article if it impairs the corporation's ability to
accomplish its primary public benefit purposes by either depriving
the corporation of a material competitive or economic benefit, or
exposing the corporation to a material competitive or economic risk.