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2010 Georgia Code

TITLE 31 - HEALTH

CHAPTER 32 - ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR HEALTH CARE
§ 31-32-12 - Restriction on requiring and preparing advance directives for health care

O.C.G.A. 31-32-12 (2010)
31-32-12. Restriction on requiring and preparing advance directives for health care


(a) No physician, health care facility, or health care provider and no health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital service plan shall require any person to execute an advance directive for health care as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services.

(b) No health care facility shall prepare or offer to prepare an advance directive for health care unless specifically requested to do so by a person desiring to execute an advance directive for health care. For purposes of this subsection, the Department of Corrections shall not be deemed to be a health care facility.