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Confidentiality of substance use disorder treatment records: Update
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30496
Subject(s) - confidentiality , damages , action (physics) , federal law , law , business , political science , internet privacy , computer security , computer science , legislation , physics , quantum mechanics
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed into law March 27 eliminated the federal rules protecting the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records. Those rules, codified under 42 CFR Part 2 of the federal regulations, are going to be changed. In an overview of the CARES Act amendments regarding confidentiality released by the Legal Action Center (LAC) in April, the law firm pointed out that the amendments don't take effect until March 27, 2021. Between now and then, the new regulations will be crafted. And that overview also includes recommendations for how the language of the new rule could mitigate against the damages expected when patients learn that their treatment may not be confidential.