New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
He - Department of Health and Human Services
Subtitle He-P - Former Division of Public Health Services
Chapter He-P 300 - DISEASES
Part He-P 304 - CANCER REGISTRY RULES
Section He-P 304.04 - Reporting of Information by a Physician Licensed by the State of New Hampshire

(a) A physician, surgeon, or other licensed health care practitioner who diagnoses or treats cancer patients shall complete and provide a definitive report in accordance with He-P 304.01(d) for each newly diagnosed cancer case when that patient will not be immediately referred to a hospital or other treatment center for additional diagnosis or treatment.

(b) A physician, surgeon, or other licensed health care practitioner shall provide additional information to SCR regarding a patient as is considered necessary for abstraction of required cancer incidence data in accordance with He-P 304.07(a) .

(c) A physician, surgeon, or other licensed health care practitioner may fulfill his or her responsibility for cancer reporting for a cancer patient through a mutual agreement allowing cases to be reported by a hospice or other facility that provided medical or nursing care to that cancer patient.

(d) A physician, surgeon or other licensed health care practitioner shall make available to the SCR the medical records of all patients with a reportable cancer for creation of the definitive report in accordance with He-P 304.01(e) .