- (a) All reports shall be submitted to the department within six months of the patient's admission, initial diagnosis or treatment for cancer.
- (b) Data shall be submitted no less than quarterly by health care facilities with annual caseloads of 400 or less. Monthly submissions are required for all other health care facilities.
- (c) Data shall be submitted no less than quarterly by health care practitioners initially diagnosing a patient with cancer and performing the in-house pathological tests for that patient. Otherwise, data shall be submitted within 4 months of the request to a health care practitioner by the department or its authorized representative for a report or subset of a report on a patient diagnosed or treated elsewhere and for whom the same cancer data has not been reported.
- (d) Data shall be submitted no less than bi-annually by clinical laboratories.
Source Note:The provisions of this §91.5 adopted to be effective November 7, 2002, 27 TexReg 10387.