2023 Idaho Code › Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY › Chapter 95 - ABORTION COMPLICATIONS REPORTING ACT › Section 39-9504 - ABORTION COMPLICATION REPORTING.

39-9504. ABORTION COMPLICATION REPORTING. (1) Every hospital, licensed health care facility or individual medical practitioner shall file a written report with the department regarding each woman who comes under the hospital’s, health care facility’s or medical practitioner’s care and receives treatment for any item listed in section 39-9503(2), Idaho Code, that the attending medical practitioner has reason to believe, in the practitioner’s reasonable medical judgment, constitutes an abnormal or a deviant process or event arising from the performance or completion of an abortion. Such reports shall be completed by the hospital, health care facility or attending medical practitioner who treated the woman, signed by the attending medical practitioner and transmitted to the department within ninety (90) days from the last date of treatment or other care or consultation for the complication.
(2) Every hospital, licensed health care facility or individual medical practitioner required to submit a complication report shall attempt to ascertain and shall report on the following:
(a) The age and race of the woman;
(b) The woman’s state and county of residence;
(c) The number of previous pregnancies, number of live births and number of previous abortions of the woman;
(d) The date the abortion was performed and the date that the abortion was completed, as well as the gestational age of the fetus, as defined in section 18-604, Idaho Code, and the methods used;
(e) Identification of the physician who performed the abortion, the facility where the abortion was performed and the referring medical practitioner, agency or service, if any;
(f) The specific complication, as that term is defined in section 39-9503(2), Idaho Code, including, where applicable, the location of the complication in the woman’s body, the date on which the complication occurred and whether there were any preexisting medical conditions that would potentially complicate pregnancy or the abortion;
(g) Whether any post-abortion follow-up visit was scheduled or required by the abortion provider and, if so, whether the woman refused or failed to attend such follow-up visit;
(h) Whether the woman was referred to a hospital, emergency department, or urgent care clinic or department for treatment for any item listed in section 39-9503(2), Idaho Code;
(i) Any follow-up care, surgery, or aspiration procedure performed because of incomplete abortion or retained tissue; and
(j) Whether the woman received treatment from any other medical practitioner for the specific complication and, if so, when such previous treatment occurred, and the medical practitioner or practitioners who provided the treatment.
(3) Reports required under this section shall not contain:
(a) The name of the woman;
(b) Common identifiers such as the woman’s social security number or motor vehicle operator’s license number; or
(c) Other information or identifiers that would make it possible to identify, in any manner or under any circumstances, a woman who has obtained an abortion and subsequently suffered an abortion-related complication.
(4) The department shall prepare a comprehensive annual statistical report for the legislature based on the data gathered from reports under this section. The statistical report shall not lead to the disclosure of the identity of any medical practitioner, or any person filing a report under this section nor of a woman about whom a report is filed. The aggregate data shall also be made independently available to the public by the department in a downloadable format.
(5) The department shall summarize aggregate data from the reports required under this chapter and submit the data to the federal centers for disease control and prevention for the purpose of inclusion in the annual vital statistics report. The aggregate data shall also be made independently available to the public by the department in a downloadable format.
(6) Reports filed pursuant to this section shall not be deemed public records and shall remain confidential, except that disclosure may be made to law enforcement officials upon an order of a court after application showing good cause. The court may condition disclosure of the information upon any appropriate safeguards it may impose.
(7) Absent a valid court order or judicial subpoena, the department, any other state department, agency or office, or any employees or contractor thereof shall not compare data concerning abortions or abortion complications maintained in an electronic or other information system file with data in any other electronic or other information system, a comparison of which could result in identifying, in any manner or under any circumstances, a woman obtaining or seeking to obtain an abortion.
(8) Statistical information that may reveal the identity of a woman obtaining or seeking to obtain an abortion shall not be maintained by the department, any other state department, agency or office, or any employee or contractor thereof.
(9) The department or an employee or contractor of the department shall not disclose to a person or entity outside the department the reports or the contents of the reports required under this section in a manner or fashion that would permit the person or entity to whom the report is disclosed to identify, in any way or under any circumstances, the woman who is the subject of the report.
(10) Original copies of all reports filed under this section shall be available to the state board of medicine for use in the performance of its official duties.
(11) The department shall communicate this reporting requirement to all medical professional organizations, medical practitioners, hospitals, emergency departments, abortion facilities, clinics, ambulatory surgical facilities, and other health care facilities operating in the state.
History:
[39-9504, added 2018, ch. 225, sec. 1, p. 511; am. 2019, ch. 50, sec. 2, p. 137.]