HHS Shifts 42 CFR Enforcement Duties to Office of Civil Rights Amid Massive Reorg. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has put its Office for Civil Rights in charge of investigating and penalizing organizations that breach the confidentiality of substance abuse disorder records. Some fear the agency doesn’t have the bandwidth to enforce both HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2.
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