Cancer registries shall forward by first class mail, by messenger, or by electronic means, case reports to the commissioner within 15 working days of the date the patient's record in the cancer registry was completed.
Medical laboratories shall forward by first class mail, by messenger, or by electronic means, case reports to the commissioner for all cases of cancer within 15 working days of the date of diagnosis.
Hospitals and medical clinics shall forward by first class mail, by messenger, or by electronic means, case reports to the commissioner for all cases of cancer diagnosed in the institution within 15 working days of the date of diagnosis.
Physicians and dentists who diagnose cancer in humans shall forward by first class mail, by messenger, or by electronic means, case reports to the commissioner within 15 working days of the date of diagnosis.
A physician or dentist is exempted from item A if the physician or dentist (i) is working within a hospital, medical clinic, or medical laboratory required to report by this part, (ii) knows the case was admitted to a hospital required to report by this part, or (iii) has received, from a medical laboratory required to report by this part, a written report indicating the presence of cancer in the case.
Alternatively, cancer registries, medical laboratories, hospitals, medical clinics, or any combination of these within or as part of an institution, may notify the commissioner of the identity of a reporting entity to report on behalf of the institution and as such shall meet the requirements of cancer reporting under subparts 1 to 4.
13 SR 528; 36 SR 615
November 30, 2011
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes