Behavioral Health Business February 15, 2023
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators asked the Biden administration to tweak its proposed rule focused on addiction treatment privacy to better align with a law meant to prevent opioids from being prescribed to those in recovery.
On Tuesday, the senators sent an open letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) calling on the agency to ensure the rule matches up with the Protecting Jessica Grubb’s Legacy Act.
“Today’s letter recommends improvements to those proposed changes to ensure HHS is fully implementing the Legacy Act as Congressionally intended,” the letter states.
Released November 2022, the proposed rule is intended to bring 42 CFR part 2, a segment of federal law that calls for strict confidentiality of...
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