# Privacy Act; Exempt Record System
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Final rule. · Published 2011-11-23 · Effective 2011-12-23 · 76 FR 72325
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-30292
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 72325
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 5
- **Publication date:** 2011-11-23
- **Effective date:** 2011-12-23
## Abstract

This final rule exempts the system of records (09-15-0054, the National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners, HHS/HRSA/BHPr) for the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) from certain provisions of the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a). The exemption is necessary due to the recent expansion of the NPDB under section 1921 of the Social Security Act to include the investigative materials compiled for law enforcement purposes reported to the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB). The system of records for the HIPDB is exempt from certain provisions of the Privacy Act (see 45 CFR 5b.11(b)(2)(ii)(F)). In order to maintain the exemption for the HIPDB investigative materials, which will now also be available through the NPDB, it is necessary to extend the same exemption to the NPDB.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/11/23/2011-30292/privacy-act-exempt-record-system)
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