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Text of opioid bill released by House Ways and Means Committee: 42 CFR Part 2 is spared
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32117
Subject(s) - health insurance portability and accountability act , house of representatives , confidentiality , accountability , business , opioid , software portability , medicine , law , political science , computer science , legislature , receptor , programming language
Last week, the long‐awaited opioid package was released by the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. Notably, 42 CFR Part 2, which the House version had slated for elimination but the Senate had not addressed, is spared. The confidentiality regulation, which requires substance use treatment providers to obtain consent from patients before releasing their information, would have been replaced with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which would have included their information in their record.