2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192 Department of Health and Senior Services
192.650. Cancer information reporting system established--purpose--rulemaking authority.

192.650. 1. The department of health and senior services shall establish and maintain a cancer information reporting system to collect data required for the receipt of federal grant funds pursuant to the Cancer Registries Amendment Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 280e, et seq.), as amended.

2. The director of the department shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying the malignant neoplasms which shall be reported and accompanying information to be reported in each case. Such rules and regulations shall provide for collection of the following data:

(1) For inpatient hospital settings, the data items collected by the department of health and senior services as of August 28, 1999, and additional data items required to be collected as a condition of federal funding for state cancer registries pursuant to the Cancer Registries Amendment Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 280e, et seq.), as amended; and

(2) For outpatient hospital settings, physician offices, pathology laboratories, ambulatory surgical centers, residential care facilities and assisted living facilities, intermediate care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and free-standing cancer clinics and treatment centers, the data items required to be collected as a condition of federal funding for state cancer registries pursuant to the Cancer Registries Amendment Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 280e, et seq.), as amended. Reports of malignant neoplasms, exclusive of nonmelanomatous cutaneous malignancies, shall be filed with the director within six months of the diagnosis or treatment. The department director shall prescribe the form and manner in which the information shall be reported.

(L. 1983 S.B. 163 § 1, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1999 H.B. 454)

*Reprinted due to editorial change required by § 198.005.