The Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information helps providers, patients, and families to navigate health privacy regulations.
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This webpage provides an overview of 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2), a brief recent history of recent changes to the regulations, and resources for organizations and individuals that must comply with Part 2.
This Template Consent provides a framework that Part 2 programs and others may adapt when creating consents authorizing uses and disclosures of Part 2-protected records.
Featuring Jacqueline Seitz, JD, CoE-PHI Health Privacy Lead During this Podcast hosted by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, hosts Dr. Danae DiRocco and Dr. Chun M. Tong facilitate a…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued a Model Part 2 Patient Notice for Part 2 programs. The Patient Notice explains how federal law protects the confidentiality of patients’ SUD treatment records.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued Model Notices of Privacy Practices (NPP) for healthcare providers and health plans subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). T[JS2.1]he NPP provides information to patients on how federal law protects the confidentiality of their protected health information (PHI), including any Part 2-protected substance use disorder treatment records.
On January 8th, 2026, the CoE-PHI hosted a free national webinar during which we outlined requirements of the 2024 Final Rule amending 42 CFR Part 2 (“Part 2”), applied learning…
As substance use and mental health treatment services are increasingly delivered within integrated care settings it’s essential for providers and administrators to understand how federal privacy protections – specifically 42…
Archived webinar outlining the requirements of the 2024 Final Rule amending 42 Part 2.
This resource is intended to assist Part 2 programs in complying with the requirements of the Final Rule by describing in detail 3 key steps that programs can take to support implementation.
This resource reviews important information that program administrators and providers should know when they share patient information protected by 42 CFR Part 2, the federal regulations governing the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records.
In 2024, HHS amended 42 CFR Part 2 to improve alignment with HIPAA. One of these changes involves new protections for “substance use disorder (SUD) counseling notes.” This resource explains these new protections in detail.
This resource addresses three common themes of questions from the CoE-PHI’s July 2025 Webinar, Part 2 Final Rule: Implementing Changes to SUD Privacy Rules.
This CoE-PHI video, featuring the perspectives of individuals with lived experience, is meant to illustrate for mental health and substance use treatment providers why confidentiality is so important to their patients’ treatment process.
Special thanks to the individuals who bravely shared their stories with us.
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