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) Birthing facilities which, on September 1, 1999, were offering newborn hearing screening to all newborns utilizing information management, reporting, and tracking software not provided by the department, or that do not participate in the medical assistance program shall cooperate with the department's designee to report screening information to the department in a format and according to a time frame specified by the department.

4. (d) Hospitals, 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, where available, 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.

Source Note:The provisions of this §37.509 adopted to be effective May 11, 2000, 25 TexReg 3962.