NY Pub Health L § 4161 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 41 - Vital Statistics Title 5 - Registration of Fetal Deaths 4161 - Fetal Death Certificates; Form and Content; Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives, and Hospital Administrators.

§  4161. Fetal death certificates; form and content; physicians, nurse   practitioners, midwives, and hospital administrators.1. The certificate of fetal death and the report of fetal death  shall   contain  such  information  and  be in such form as the commissioner may   prescribe;  provided  however  that   commencing   on   or   after   the   implementation  date under section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this   article, information and signatures required by this  subdivision  shall   be  obtained  and  made  in  accordance  with  section forty-one hundred   forty-eight of this article, except that unless requested by  the  woman   neither  the certificate nor the report of fetal death shall contain the   name of the woman, her social security number or any  other  information   which  would  permit  her  to  be  identified except as provided in this   subdivision. The report shall state that a certificate  of  fetal  death   was  filed  with  the  commissioner  and  the  date  of such filing. The   commissioner shall develop a unique, confidential identifier to be  used   on  the  certificate  of  fetal  death to be used in connection with the   exercise of the commissioner's authority to monitor the quality of  care   provided  by any individual or entity licensed to perform an abortion in   this state and to permit coordination of  data  concerning  the  medical   history  of the woman for purposes of conducting surveillance scientific   studies and research pursuant to the  provisions  of  paragraph  (j)  of   subdivision one of section two hundred six of this chapter.2.  In  each  case  where  a  physician  or  nurse practitioner was in   attendance at or after a fetal death, it is the duty of  such  physician   or  nurse practitioner to certify to the birth and to the cause of death   on the fetal death certificate. Where a nurse-midwife was in  attendance   at  a fetal death it is the duty of such nurse-midwife to certify to the   birth but, he or she shall not certify to the  cause  of  death  on  the   fetal death certificate.3.  Fetal  deaths  occurring  without the attendance of a physician or   nurse practitioner as provided in subdivision two of this section  shall   be  treated  as  deaths  without medical attendance, as provided in this   article.4. When a fetal death occurs in a  hospital,  except  in  those  cases   where  certificates  are  issued  by  coroners or medical examiners, the   person  in  charge  of  such  hospital  or   his   or   her   designated   representative  shall  promptly present the certificate to the physician   or  nurse  practitioner  in  attendance,  or  a   physician   or   nurse   practitioner  acting in his or her behalf, who shall promptly certify to   the facts of birth and of fetal death, provide the  medical  information   required  by  the certificate, sign the medical certificate of birth and   death, and thereupon return such certificate to such person, so that the   seventy-two hour registration time  limit  prescribed  in  section  four   thousand  one  hundred sixty of this title can be met; provided, however   that commencing on  or  after  the  implementation  date  under  section   forty-one   hundred   forty-eight   of  this  article,  information  and   signatures required by this subdivision shall be obtained  and  made  in   accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this article.