Wouldn’t medical privacy rights bar doctors from supplying information to the government. THen again, probably not since the parents aren’t the doctor’s patients.
Actually, under HIPAA the ONLY entity that physicians can give medical records to without scads of paperwork IS the government (for cost control and quality purposes, of course).
HIPAA is 100 or so pages of the Clinton Health Security Act that managed to make it into law.
Still, the doctor is repeating to a 3rd party something that was told to them by a patient during a visit. I think this should be considered a HIPAA violation.