Missouri Health Privacy Rights

No major state-specific privacy statute. Missouri's laws uphold physician-patient privilege and require patient consent or court order for release of medical info in most non-treatment contexts. Missouri regulations say records should be made available within a "reasonable time," generally taken to be within 30 days (the state even notes 30 days is reasonable). Missouri annually sets maximum copying fees but prohibits charging for search time (consistent with HIPAA's cost rules). In general, MO follows HIPAA's baseline. One unique point: Missouri law explicitly allows a deceased patient's personal representative to sue for breach of confidentiality, giving a sort of posthumous privacy right enforceable by estate.