PROVIDERS DON'T CONSENT TO PRIOR CONSENT RULE.(Brief Article)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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A requirement in the final medical privacy rule that providers obtain specific prior consent from patients each time they perform a procedure or fill a prescription seems to be generating the loudest outcry and likely will get the boot after the Bush Administration's review of the regulation that was issued in December by the Clinton White House.

In its preamble to the privacy rule as originally proposed, HHS...

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