The Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations of the amended Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implemented in April 2003:
a. allow psychotherapists to release client information without client consent
b. provide for a separate client authorization to release psychotherapy notes
c. do not address privacy of electronic records
d. allow each therapist to exercise his or her own judgment as to what information to release
B
The regulations do include a provision for client consent to release medical information and a separate client authorization to release psychotherapy notes. Originally, the rules required separate forms for consent to release information for treatment, payment, or peer review and for authorization to release information for all other disclosures, including for client records to be disclosed to the client's attorney.
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