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Patient Confidentiality: Hospital’s Release of Alcohol Treatment Data Does Not Violate Regs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Hassen A. Sayeed
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In M.A.K. v. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and held that the phrase any physician, medical practitioner, hospital, clinic, health care facility or other medical or medically related facility, in a patient's signed consent form met the general designation requirement of the Code of Federal Regulations for the release of alcohol and drug abuse treatment records. Thus, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the medical center's release of a patient's records did not violate the federal Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records regulations.

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Recent Developments in Health Law
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 319 - 321
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2002

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