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All health care providers involved with the medical care of minors should learn more about their state’s laws regarding emancipated minors, mature minor exceptions, and specific medical services that do not require parental permission to best serve their adolescent patients.[1][2] In states that do provide a mature minor exception, health care providers should develop a set of protocols that outline a process for assessing the minor’s maturity and decision-making capacity as well as legal documentation guidelines to protect against liability during litigation.[8] State-specific laws and policies on teenage reproductive health are available at the Guttmacher Institute. Details regarding adolescent consent and confidentiality rules are available at the Center for Adolescent Health and the Law (ww.cahl.org). Furthermore, health care providers are urged by the American Medical Association and AAP to make all efforts to respect the adolescent’s privacy from their parents or legal guardians with a clear explanation that confidentiality is conditional in certain circumstances.[2][10] However, the conditional nature of confidentiality in adolescent health care does not apply when working with an emancipated minor or a minor accessing medical services that do not require parental consent or notification.  Health care providers need to make extra efforts to protect adolescents' confidentiality in electronic medical records and insurance billing in these exempt circumstances.[1]