The Trump administration proposed to allow doctors to more easily obtain consent from patients for sharing information about their substance use treatment.
A proposal released Aug. 22 would allow patients to consent to their information being shared with entities like insurers, the Social Security Administration, and halfway houses, among others. Currently, substance-use patients need to name specific people at these institutions—information they may not know.
The changes would also allow doctors to disclose a patient is undergoing substance-use treatment in a natural disaster emergency without patient consent.
The regulation, known as the “Part 2 rule,” covers privacy for patients who ...
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