Tracker record · Federal · Final rule
42 CFR Part 2: substance-use confidentiality amendments
The federal confidentiality rules for substance-use-disorder patient records, as amended to align more closely with HIPAA, with distinct consent and redisclosure requirements that survive the alignment.
Status
- Legal status
- In effect (Final rule published February 16, 2024; compliance February 16, 2026)
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Federally assisted substance use disorder treatment programs (part 2 programs), with respect to records that identify a patient as having or having had a substance use disorder and contain substance use disorder information obtained by the program (42 C.F.R. 2.12(a))
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Primary-source pinpoint
- 42 C.F.R. part 2
- Citation
- 42 C.F.R. part 2
- Source
- 42 C.F.R. part 2