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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 18-409

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Newborn Hearing Screening Program; Change in Reporting Requirements

[48 Pa.B. 1627]
[Saturday, March 17, 2018]

 The Infant Hearing Education, Assessment, Reporting and Referral (IHEARR) Act (11 P.S. §§ 876-1—876-9) requires facilities to report, in a manner prescribed by the Department of Health (Department), the number of newborns and infants screened for hearing and the results of the screening to the Newborn Hearing Screening Program, overseen by the Department's Division of Newborn Screening and Genetics. As previously announced, effective January 1, 2018, submitters (hospitals, birth centers and midwives) are required to report individual level hearing screening results for all hearing screenings completed (inpatient or outpatient screens) for all newborns birthed by the submitter. This report requires information on nonscreened babies including parent refusals, missed screens, babies that were transferred to another hospital and expired babies.

 The purpose of this notice is to announce a change in the method of reporting hearing screening results. As of June 1, 2018, all individual level hearing screening reporting must be completed by the newborn screening data system, iCMS. If a submitter was not able to participate in one of the iCMS trainings offered between November 2017 and February 2018, they must participate in the last training scheduled for April 12, 2018, by teleconference. Submitters must register for this training with iCMS vendor representative Lisa Hudson, (631) 873-4193, Lisa.Hudson@natus.com. The only exception for individual level hearing screening reporting through iCMS will be for midwives who provide a written notification to the Division of Newborn Screening and Genetics that they do not have Internet access. In this case, midwives will be allowed to continue reporting by the Newborn Hearing Screening Program Hearing Screening Reporting Form. The monthly hearing screening aggregate report is still required. For additional information contact Stacey Gustin, Program Manager, Division of Newborn Screening and Genetics, (717) 783-8143, or for speech and/or hearing-impaired persons, call the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984 (TDD users) or (800) 654-5988 (voice users).

RACHEL L. LEVINE, MD, 
Acting Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 18-409. Filed for public inspection March 16, 2018, 9:00 a.m.]


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