[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: 42CFR35.14]



[Page 114-115]

 

                         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. 35.14  Solicitation of legal business; negotiation of release or 

settlement; assistance prohibited.



    All employees of the Service and all persons attached in any 

capacity to a station or hospital, including patients, are forbidden to 

communicate, directly or indirectly, with any person for the purpose of 

aiding in the solicitation of legal business or in the negotiation of a 

settlement or the obtaining of a general or special release or statement 

from any patient with reference to any



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illness or personal injury for which the patient is receiving care or 

treatment therein. No patient is prohibited by this section from 

communicating on his own behalf with an attorney of his choice or with 

other persons.