Records of health care facility: Availability to State Health Officer; abstracting of information; fees; penalty.
1. The chief administrative officer of each health care facility in this state shall make available to the State Health Officer or his representative the records of the health care facility for every case of malignant neoplasms which are specified by the State Board of Health as subject to reporting.
2. The Health Division shall abstract from the records of the health care facility or shall require the health care facility to abstract from their own records such information as is required by the State Board of Health. The Health Division shall compile the information timely and not later than 6 months after it abstracts the information or receives the abstracted information from the health care facility.
3. The Board shall by regulation adopt a schedule of fees which must be assessed to the health care facility for each case from which information is abstracted by the Health Division or by the health care facility pursuant to subsection 2. The fee assessed to a facility which abstracts information from its own records must not exceed one-third of the amount assessed to facilities for which the Health Division abstracts.
4. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of $1,000, and may be further punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months.
Last modified: February 26, 2006