Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule provide rights for children to be treated without parental consent?
No. The Privacy Rule does not address consent to treatment, nor does it preempt or change State or other laws that address consent to treatment. The Rule addresses access to, and disclosure of, health information, not the underlying treatment. v Limited Data Set If the only protected health information a business associate receives is a limited data set, does the HIPAA Privacy Rule require the covered entity to enter into both a business associate agreement and data use agreement with the business associate? No. Where a covered entity discloses only a limited data set to a business associate for the business associate to carry out a health care operations function, the covered entity satisfies the Rules requirements that it obtain satisfactory assurances from its business associate with the data use agreement. For example, where a State hospital association receives only limited data sets of protected health information from its member hospitals for the purposes of conducting and shari
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