1. (1) Whenever a clinical laboratory which is not owned or operated by a hospital provides laboratory services for any patient relating to a tumor designated as reportable by ARM 37.8.1801, it must collect, record, and make available to the department the following information about that patient:

   1. (a) name and current address of patient;
   2. (b) patient's address at time of diagnosis;
   3. (c) social security number;
   4. (d) name of spouse, if any;
   5. (e) race, sex, and marital status;
   6. (f) age at diagnosis, month, day, and year of birth;
   7. (g) date and place of initial diagnosis;
   8. (h) primary site of tumor (paired organ);
   9. (i) sequence of primary tumors, if more than one;
   10. (j) method of confirming diagnosis;
   11. (k) histology, including dates, place, histologic type, and slide number;
   12. (l) summary staging, including whether in situ, localized, regional, distant or unstaged, with no information, or whether AJCC or TNM staging is utilized, and, if so, the findings of the staging;
   13. (m) description of tumor and its spread, if any, including size in centimeters, number of positive nodes, number of nodes examined, and site of distant metastasis;
   14. (n) status at time of latest recorded information, i.e., whether alive or dead, tumor in evidence, or recurring, or status unknown; and
   15. (o) names of physicians primarily and secondarily responsible for follow up.

Authorizing statute(s): 50-15-706, MCA

Implementing statute(s): 50-15-703, MCA

History: NEW, 1985 MAR p. 1857, Eff. 11/30/85; TRANS, from DHES, 1997 MAR p. 1460; AMD, 2003 MAR p. 2441, Eff. 10/31/03; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 87, Eff. 1/30/09.