The compliance date for the revised federal substance use disorder confidentiality rule came and went on February 16, 2026. If you run an outpatient SUD program or an opioid treatment program in Oregon, your forms and policies should already reflect the revised 42 CFR Part 2 requirements. The consent form gets most of the attention, but the rule also changed the patient notice and added duties for
AI tooling for outpatient behavioral health crossed a threshold in 2025 that most small practices have not yet adjusted to. Ambient documentation, payer-aware coding assistants, intake automation, and workflow agents have moved from "promising demos" to commodity products with real HIPAA-compliant deployments. The result is that the stack a 1- to 10-clinician practice should be running in mid-2026
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