Mo. Code Regs. Ann. tit. 19, § 10-15.030
Content and Filing of Tissue Report
Effective Jan 12, 1981sections 188.047, 188.050, 191.420 and 192.020, RSMo 1986. This rule was previously filed as 13 CSR 50-151.030 and 19 CSR 30-15.030. Original rule filed Sept. 30, 1980, effective Jan. 12, 1981. Changed to 19 CSR 10-15.030 July 30, 1998Office of the Director
PURPOSE: The Department of Health under sections 188.047 and 188.055, RSMo 1986 is given the responsibility to provide forms relating to abortion to health facilities and physicians. This rule establishes the content of the tissue report and filing requirements for tissue reports.
- (1) The Department of Health will accept local pathologists’ report forms for compliance with section 188.047, RSMo 1986 if the reports contain the following: patient identification number assigned by the facility where the abortion took place; date of the procedure; name and address of the abortion facility or hospital where the procedure was performed; name and address of the pathologist who examined the tissue. All reports shall contain the findings of a gross examination. If fetal parts or placenta are not identified, then an accompanying microscopic tissue report must also be filed with the Department of Health.
- (2) The pathologist shall file the tissue report with the Department of Health within thirty
- (30) days after the examination of the tissue.
AUTHORITY: sections 188.047, 188.050, 191.420 and 192.020, RSMo 1986. This rule was previously filed as 13 CSR 50-151.030 and 19 CSR 30-15.030. Original rule filed Sept. 30, 1980, effective Jan. 12, 1981. Changed to 19 CSR 10-15.030 July 30, 1998.