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HR 2630 111th Congress House

Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act

Official title: To protect the privacy of patients and physicians.

Introduced: May 21, 2009 See on congress.gov
Health Government information and archivesHealth care costs and insuranceHealth information and medical recordsRight of privacy
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 2, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 21, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
May 21, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1242-1243)
May 21, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 21, 2009
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
May 21, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Latest action June 2, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act - Grants individuals the ability to opt out of any federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system for maintaining health care information.

Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) the requirement that the Secretary of Health and Human Servives adopt standards providing for standard unique health identifiers; and (2) the offense of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

Prohibits the use of federal funds to support, encourage, or otherwise promote the use of standard unique health identifiers in any federal, state, or private health care plan.

Requires informed consent for the sharing from electronic medical records of any information created pursuant to a federally mandated, created, or funded program.

Prohibits health information from an individual medical record from being placed in a federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system of health information, absent a signed, informed consent from the patient involved.

States that the federal government may not require a health care provider to participate in any federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system of maintaining health care information.

Prohibits sanctions against a health care provider for failing to participate in such a system.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2630: Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2630/
MLA
"H.R. 2630: Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2630/.
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H.R. 2630, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2630/.
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[H.R. 2630: Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2630/)
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