Government and public statistics
45 CFR 164.506: Uses and disclosures to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (reproducing the Code of Federal Regulations), n.d.
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- What it is
- The text of the HIPAA Privacy Rule section that lets a covered entity use and disclose protected health information for its own treatment, payment and health care operations.
- How much weight it carries
- The federal regulation as reproduced by the Cornell Legal Information Institute, which copies the official e-CFR text. The reproduction is unofficial, but the wording is the regulation's.
Facts taken from this source
- HIPAA permits a covered entity to use or disclose protected health information for its own treatment, which is the permission clinicians rely on when they document care.
“A covered entity may use or disclose protected health information for its own treatment” (§ 164.506(c)(1))