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Onslaught against 42 CFR Part 2 continues in Congress
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32336
Subject(s) - abandonment (legal) , opposition (politics) , confidentiality , accountability , public administration , political science , government (linguistics) , law , software portability , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , politics , computer science , programming language
With the opposition of the American Medical Association (AMA) last fall, any moves in Congress and the federal government to weaken the patient consent provisions of 42 CFR Part 2, the regulation protecting the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records, were stopped in their tracks — and in the nick of time (see ADAW , Oct. 1, 2018; Oct. 15, 2018). But the groups promoting the complete abandonment of 42 CFR Part 2, replacing it with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which itself is targeted for at least partial destruction (see ADAW , Jan. 21, Jan. 28, Feb. 25), are back. There's a new push to try to overhaul 42 CFR Part 2.