[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR35.13]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 35--HOSPITAL AND STATION MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 35.13  Entry for negotiation of release or settlement.

    (a) No person shall be permitted to enter a station or hospital of 
the Service for the purpose of negotiating a settlement or obtaining a 
general or special release or statement from any patient with reference 
to any illness or personal injury for which the patient is receiving 
care or treatment, or for the purpose of conferring with him as an 
attorney or representative of an attorney with reference to such illness 
or injury, unless the patient has signified his willingness to have such 
person enter for such purpose and, in the judgment of the officer in 
charge, the physical or mental condition of the patient will not thereby 
be impaired.
    (b) Any person entering a station or hospital for a purpose 
enumerated in paragraph (a) of this section shall register in the manner 
prescribed by the officer in charge, and shall furnish for the records 
of the station or hospital the name of each patient by whom he has been 
received for such a purpose.