---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 162.915"
title: "45"
number: "162.915"
heading: "Trading partner agreements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/162.915"
---

# §162.915. Trading partner agreements.


A covered entity must not enter into a trading partner agreement that would do any of the following:

- (a) Change the definition, data condition, or use of a data element or segment in a standard or operating rule, except where necessary to implement State or Federal law, or to protect against fraud and abuse.
- (b) **Add any data elements or segments to the maximum defined data set.**
- (c) Use any code or data elements that are either marked “not used” in the standard's implementation specification or are not in the standard's implementation specification(s).
- (d) **Change the meaning or intent of the standard's implementation specification(s).**

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 50367, Aug. 17, 2000, as amended at 76 FR 40495, July 8, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1320d—1320d-9 and secs. 1104 and 10109 of Pub. L. 111-148, 124 Stat. 146-154 and 915-917.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 50367, Aug. 17, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[65 FR 50367, Aug. 17, 2000, as amended at 76 FR 40495, July 8, 2011]