[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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.