1. (a) The department shall provide appropriate information management, reporting, and tracking software to birthing facilities that provide newborn hearing screening under the State's medical assistance program provided under Human Resources Code, Chapter 32.
2. (b) The department shall offer birthing facilities participating in the medical assistance program software for the newborn hearing screening program. Birthing facilities must report the resulting information in a format and according to a time frame specified by the department.

3. (c) Audiologists, qualified hearing screening providers, intervention specialists, educators, and others who receive referrals from programs under this chapter shall either provide the needed services or refer the children to another provider of the needed services, and with consent shall provide the following information to the department or its designee:

   1. (1) results of follow-up care;
   2. (2) results of audiologic testing of infants identified with hearing loss;
   3. (3) reports on initiation of intervention services; and
   4. (4) results of follow-up and testing on children served under the state's medical assistance program under Human Resources Code, Chapter 32, who are eligible for services and hearing aids through the department's Program for Amplification for Children of Texas.

4. (d) Audiologists, qualified hearing screening providers, intervention specialists, educators, and others who provide services to infants who are diagnosed with hearing loss shall provide the following information, with consent, to the department or its designee:

   1. (1) results of follow-up services;
   2. (2) results of audiologic testing of infants identified with hearing loss;
   3. (3) report on initiation of intervention services; and
   4. (4) results of follow-up and testing on children served under the state's medical assistance program under Human Resources Code, Chapter 32, who are eligible for services and hearing aids through the department's Program for Amplification for Children of Texas.

5. (e) Hospitals that provide services under this chapter shall use the information management, reporting and tracking software provided by the department to report, with consent, the following information to the department or its designee:

   1. (1) results of all follow-up services for infants who do not pass the birth admission screen when the hospital provides the follow-up services; or
   2. (2) the name of the provider or facility where the hospital refers the family for follow-up services.

Source Note:The provisions of this §37.509 adopted to be effective May 11, 2000, 25 TexReg 3962; amended to be effective April 3, 2007, 32 TexReg 1913.