Physician Reporting Requirements

(A) A physician who makes a diagnosis of a congenital anomaly prenatally, at delivery, or three years of age or younger shall report such diagnosis to the department. (B) A physician is not required to make a duplicate report under 105 CMR 302.040(A) if he or she has been informed that another physician made the diagnosis and has already reported to the Department the required information or if he or she is seeing the child for reasons other than for the purpose of making a diagnosis of a congenital anomaly. (C) Health care facilities and physician practice groups may act as agents for individual physicians by submitting the report directly to the Department; however, the reporting requirement remains the responsibility of the physician who makes the diagnosis. (D) All diagnoses shall be classified and coded as directed by the Commissioner using one of the systems for coding specified in 105 CMR 302.060.