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Medical Records Collection, Retention, and Access in South Dakota

 

Medical Records Collection, Retention, and Access in South Dakota

Subtopic Statute/Regulation Description
Right to access to medical records (Access by representative or other person authorized by the patient through informed consent; copying fees, or other requirements (e.g., requirement to give patient access in electronic format)) Access to records, S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:34:08 Access to records   Requires Medicaid providers to permit the Department of Social Services, Department of Human Services, Department of Health...
Inmate records and statistics required of institutions, SDLC § 34-12-15 Inmate records and statistics required of instiutions -- Copy to patient and certain other persons on request.    Requires hospitals and...
Medical records released, SDLC § 36-2-16 Medical records released to patient or designee on request -- Expenses paid by patient -- Violation as misdemeanor   Requires licensed health...
Medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05:06.01 Medical records   Requires home health agencies to maintain client medical records that include documentation that the client’s attending...
Privacy and Confidentiality, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:11:08 Privacy and confidentiality    Grants nursing facility residents rights to privacy and confidentiality. Specifies how facilities must act...
Privacy and confidentiality, S.D. Admin. R. 44:79:09:06 Privacy and confidentiality    Grants hospice patients rights to privacy and confidentiality. Specifies how hospice facilities must act in...
Release of patient information, SDLC § 36-11-69 Release of patient information     Specifies the circumstances in which pharmacists may release patient information (e.g., with the...
Content of medical record Actions which may warrant sanctions, S.D. Admin. R. 20:41:10:05.02 Actions which may warrant sanctions    Identifies 14 violations which may result in the discipline of a licensed chiropractor including the...
Admission evaluation requirements, SDLC § 27A-15-10 Admission immediately upon determination that criteria met -- Clinical evaluation -- continued admission -- Delivery of clinical evaluation to parent...
Controlled substances-- standards for medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 20:47:07:01 Standards for medical records when prescribing controlled substances for the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain.    Identifies 13...
Copy of signed consent form, SDLC § 34-14-23 Person to be tested to recieve copy of signed consent form -- Original signed form to be filed in medical records.    Requires the signed...
Emergency surgery or treatment, SDLC § 27A-12-3.11 Emergency surgery or treatment-- Documentation of necessity    Permits providers to perform emergency medical procedures on patients...
Informed consent -- oral and written, SDLC § 27A-15-9 Informed consent -- Oral and written   Requires mental health providers to obtain a parent' informed consent orally and in writing in order to...
Inmate records and statistics required of institutions, SDLC § 34-12-15 Inmate records and statistics required of instiutions -- Copy to patient and certain other persons on request.    Requires hospitals and...
Laboratory services, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:09:01 Laboratory services   Permits ambulatory surgery centers to conduct lab exams as necessary to diagnose and treat patients either in the facility...
Medication administration, S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:08:07 Medication administration   Requires health care providers that administer medication to a patient in a critical access hospital to document the...
Medication administration, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:07:07 Medication administration   Requires health care providers that administer medication to a patient in an ambulatory surgery center to document...
Medication administration, S.D. Admin. R. 44:79:07:07 Medication administration   Requires health care providers that administer medication to a hospice patient to document the administration in the...
Medication administration, S.D. Admin. R. 44:80:07:06 Medication administration   Requires health care providers that administer medication to a residential hospice patient to document the...
Medication records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:08:08 Medication records   Requires providers to document all administered medications in a nursing facility resident’s medical record.
Medication records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:08:08 Medication records   Requires providers to document all administered medications in a critical access hospital patient's medical record.
Medication records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:07:08 Medication records   Requires providers to document all administered medications in an ambulatory surgery center patient's medical record.
Medication records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:79:07:08 Medication records,    Requires providers to document all administered medications in a hospice patient’s medical record.
Notice to parent or guardian for minor, SDLC § 34-23A-7 Forty-eight hour notice to parent or guardian for minor or incompetent female -- Delivery of notice-- Exceptions   Requires abortion providers...
Oral and written informed consent, SDLC § 27A-15-46 Oral and written informed consent of parent or guardian required for use of psychotropic medication on minor under sixteen.    Requires...
Patient record system, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:24:02 Patient record system    Requires pharmacies to maintain a system of patient records. Specifies the information that the records should...
Radiological reports, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:09:08 Radiological reports   Requires practitioners to make radiological reports part of an ambulatory surgery center patient’s medical record....
Record content, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:09:04 Record content    Specifies the information that nursing facilities must include in resident medical records (e.g., plan of care, consent...
Record content, S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:09:04 Record content    Specifies the information that critical access hospital facilities must include in patient medical records (e.g., plan of...
Record content, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:08:04 Record content    Specifies the information that ambulatory surgery facilities must include in resident medical records (e.g., plan of care...
Record content, S.D. Admin. R. 44:79:08:03 Record content    Specifies the information that inpatient hospice facilities must include in resident medical records (e.g., plan of care...
Record keeping and reporting requirements, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:28:05 Record keeping and reporting requirements    Requires pharmacists that administer influenza immunizations to maintain immunization records...
Responsibilities, S.D. Admin. R. 44:19:02:06 Responsibilities of hospitals, physicians, and other health professionals    Requires health care providers to notify the parent or...
Sharing of immunization records, SDLC § 34-22-12.5 Sharing of immunization records permitted unless signed refusal in medical record -- Violation as a misdemeanor.    Requires authorized...
Voluntary inpatient informed consent. SDCL § 27A-8-15 Explanation required prior to acceptance of voluntary inpatient -- informed consent.    Requires inpatient psychiatric facilities to...
Voluntary inpatient review, SDLC § 27A-8-17 Requires the director or administrator of a mental health facility to review a patient’s medical record 30 days after their voluntary admission...
Required maintenance of medical records Actions which may warrant sanctions, S.D. Admin. R. 20:41:10:05.02 Actions which may warrant sanctions    Identifies 14 violations which may result in the discipline of a licensed chiropractor including the...
Clinical record requirements, S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:41:08 Clinical record requirements   Requires mental health providers to maintain clinical records for Medicaid recipients. Specifies the information...
Individual records required, SDLC § 27A-12-25 Individual records required-- Contents -- Confidentiality    Requires mental health providers to maintain confidential medical records for...
Inmate records and statistics required of institutions, SDLC § 34-12-15 Inmate records and statistics required of instiutions -- Copy to patient and certain other persons on request.    Requires hospitals and...
Maintenance of patient records, SDLC § 36-11-68 Counseling patients and caregivers -- Maintenance of patient records    Requires pharmacists to provide counseling to patients or their...
Maintenance of records, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:24:04 Maintenance of Records   Requires pharmacies to maintain records for at least one year following the last entry into the record. Permits...
Medical orders, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:05:03 Medical Orders   Requires medical practitioners to sign all medical orders. Permits verbal orders when there is an urgent need for care or a...
Medical orders, S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:05:02 Medical orders,    Requires medical practitioners working in critical access hospitals to sign all medical orders. Permits verbal orders...
Medical record, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:09:01.01 Medical record   Requires nursing facilities to maintain an organized medical records system and a separate medical record for each level of...
Medical Records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:67:04:08 Medical records   Requires licensed abortion facilities to maintain medical records for every abortion procedure.
Medical Records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:69:05:06 Medical Records,    Requires birth centers to maintain separate medical records for every client and newborn infant.
Medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05:06.01 Medical records   Requires home health agencies to maintain client medical records that include documentation that the client’s attending...
Medication therapy reviewed monthly, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:08:03 Medication therapy reviewed monthly    Requires pharmacists to conduct reviews of a nursing facility resident’s drug regimen at least...
Patient record system, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:24:02 Patient record system    Requires pharmacies to maintain a system of patient records. Specifies the information that the records should...
Prevention and control of influenza, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:04:09 Prevention and control of influenza   Requires nursing facilities to annually offer a flu vaccine to residents and to document the resident...
Prevention and control of pneumonia, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:04:10 Prevention and control of pneumonia    Requires nursing facilities to immunize residents against pneumonia within 14 days of admission if...
Recording patient information, SDLC § 36-11-19.8 Recording patient information   Requires nonresident pharmacies-entities located outside of South Dakota-to maintain records of relevant patient...
Required medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:34:03 Required medical records   Specifies the information that Medicaid providers must include in patient medical records (e.g., diagnoses, patient...
S.D. Admin. R. 44:58:07:04 Acquisition, dispensing, and distribution of records    Establishes minimum standards for records maintained by dispensers of controlled...
Controlled substances records Controlled substances-- standards for medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 20:47:07:01 Standards for medical records when prescribing controlled substances for the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain.    Identifies 13...
Routine quality assurance required, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:30:17 Routine quality assurance required   Requires the pharmacist-in-charge at a telepharmacy to comply with five quality assurance standards. ...
S.D. Admin. R. 44:58:07:04 Acquisition, dispensing, and distribution of records    Establishes minimum standards for records maintained by dispensers of controlled...
Retention periods Data retention, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:32:11 Data retention   Requires the Board of Pharmacy to retain prescription drug monitoring program records for three years following the record date...
Maintenance of records, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:24:04 Maintenance of Records   Requires pharmacies to maintain records for at least one year following the last entry into the record. Permits...
Medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05:06.01 Medical records   Requires home health agencies to maintain client medical records that include documentation that the client’s attending...
Radiological reports, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:09:08 Radiological reports   Requires practitioners to make radiological reports part of an ambulatory surgery center patient’s medical record....
Record keeping and reporting requirements, S.D. Admin. R. 20:51:28:05 Record keeping and reporting requirements    Requires pharmacists that administer influenza immunizations to maintain immunization records...
Retention of medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:73:09:06 Retention of medical records   Requires nursing facilities to maintain resident medical records for at least 10 years following a visit date of...
Retention of medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:09:06 Retention of medical records   Requires critical access hospital facilities to maintain resident medical records for at least 10 years following...
Retention of medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:76:08:06 Retention of medical records   Requires ambulatory surgery center facilities to maintain resident medical records for at least 10 years...
Retention of medical records, S.D. Admin. R. 44:79:08:04 Retention of medical records   Requires hospice facilities to maintain records for six years following a patient’s visit date.
Medical Records Collection, Retention, and Access S.D. ADMIN. R. 44:73:09:06 - Retention of Medical Records A health care facility must maintain patient records and retain them for 10 year from the date of the patient’s treatment. If the patient is a...
S.D. Codified Laws § 36-2-16     Medical records released to patient or designee on request--Expenses paid by patient--Violation as misdemeanor   These...
S.D. Codified Laws § 36-4-37 Transfer of active patient records--Destruction--Notice A licensed physician may only transfer active patient records in his or her control to...
S.D. CODIFIED LAWS § 36-4-38 - Destruction of inactive patient records   A physician may destroy patient records that have become inactive, or for which the whereabouts of the patient are unknown.