Establishment of the Birth Problems Registry and Reporting Requirements for Birth Problems – 410 Ind. Admin. Code 21-3 (1-9)

The following entities have a duty to report every birth problem, except a pervasive developmental disorder or a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder that has been diagnosed in a child before that child's third birthday, or was diagnosed at the time of a child's death up to three years of age, to the state department’s birth problems registry:

• Hospitals.
• Birthing centers.
• Health facilities.
• Physicians.
• Psychiatric hospitals.
• Dentists.
• Oral surgeons.
• Registered or licensed practical nurses.
• Midwives.
• Optometrists.
• Podiatrists.
• Chiropractors.
• Physical therapists.
• Psychologists.
• Local health departments.
• Health maintenance

Reports to the registry must be made within 60 days of diagnosis, and only diagnoses of birth problems in children who are Indiana residents shall be reported.  The birth problems that must be reported include those conditions identified in the International Classification of Diseases, as well as:

• A structural deformation
• A developmental malformation
• A genetic, inherited, or biochemical disease
• A condition of a chronic nature, including a central nervous system hemorrhage or an infection of the central nervous system that may result in a need for long term health care
• A pervasive developmental disorder
• A fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
• Any other severe disability that is recognized in a child after birth and before the child becomes three years of age