Qualified Service Organization:
Organization (42 CFR Part 2) A person or organization that provides
services to a program, such as data processing, bill collecting, dosage
preparation, laboratory analyses, or legal, medical, accounting, or
other professional services, or services to prevent or treat child abuse
or neglect, including training on nutrition and child care and individual
and group therapy. The person or organization has entered into a written
agreement with a program providing drug or alcohol referral, diagnosis
or treatment under which the person or organization acknowledges that
in receiving, storing, processing or otherwise dealing with any records
concerning enrolled persons, it is fully bound by these regulations
and, if necessary, will resist in judicial proceedings any efforts to
obtain access to records of enrolled persons except as permitted by
these regulations.