Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 37 - MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH SERVICES
Subchapter S - NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING
Section 37.504 - Required Reporting

(a) Any healthcare provider who performs initial hearing screening, follow-up screening, diagnostic evaluations, follow-up care, or interventions is required to report all patient encounters and outcomes, including pass and do not pass results, in the TEHDI MIS within five calendar days after the date of the patient encounter.

(b) If a parent declines the hearing screening for the newborn, the hearing screening refusal must be documented in the medical record and the TEHDI MIS.