Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT › Article 56 - REPORTING OF INDUCED TERMINATIONS OF PREGNANCY › Section 28-56-1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11,
			 2024
Each of the following terms shall have the meaning assigned in
				this regulation:
(a) "Abortion" has
			 the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-6701, and amendments thereto.
(b) "Abortion provider" means a physician
			 that performs an abortion, a clinic comprised of legally or financially
			 affiliated physicians, a hospital, or any other medical care facility where an
			 abortion is performed.
(c)
			 "Abortion report" means the information required to be submitted by an abortion
			 provider to the department either electronically or on a paper form provided by
			 the department.
(d) "Clinical
			 estimate of gestation" means the number of completed weeks of gestation of an
			 unborn child as determined through a sonogram.
(e) "Confidential code number" means a random
			 five-digit identification number, along with subcategory letters, assigned by
			 the department to an abortion provider for the purpose of submitting an
			 abortion report to the department.
(f) "Correction" means the act of providing
			 information to the department to correct errors or provide missing information
			 to an abortion report.
(g)
			 "Department" has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-6701, and amendments thereto.
(h) "Electronic abortion reporting system"
			 means the department's vital events reporting system through which abortion
			 reports are submitted electronically to the department.
(i) "Failed abortion" means an abortion
			 procedure that was initiated but not completed and resulted in a live
			 birth.
(j) "Failed abortion report"
			 means the information on a failed abortion required to be submitted by the
			 abortion provider to the department on a paper form provided by the
			 department.
(k) "Hospital" has the
			 meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-425, and amendments thereto.
(l) "ICD-9-CM" means volumes one and two,
			 office edition, of the 2011 clinical modification of the "international
			 classification of diseases," ninth revision, sixth edition, published by
			 practice management information corporation, which is used to code and classify
			 morbidity data from inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and
			 most surveys from the national center for health statistics. This document,
			 including the appendices, is hereby adopted by reference.
(m) "Late term" means the clinical estimate
			 of gestation of at least 22 completed weeks.
(n) "Late term affidavit" means a
			 department-provided form for each abortion that occurs at a clinical estimate
			 of gestation of at least 22 weeks. The referring physician and the physician
			 performing the abortion shall each submit a separate form, which shall be
			 completed, signed, and notarized and shall meet the requirements of K.A.R.
			 28-56-6 .
(o) "Live birth" has the
			 meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2401, and amendments thereto.
(p) "Medical basis" means the specific
			 medical signs, symptoms, history, or other information provided by the patient
			 or the results of clinical examinations, procedures, or laboratory tests used
			 to make a medical diagnosis.
(q)
			 "Medical care facility" has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-425, and amendments thereto.
(r) "Medical diagnosis" means a specific
			 medical condition or disease as determined by a physician.
(s) "Medical emergency" has the meaning
			 specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-4a01, and amendments thereto.
(t) "Partial birth abortion" has the meaning
			 specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-6721, and amendments thereto.
(u) "Physician" has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-6701, and amendments thereto.
(v) "Physician's report on number of
			 certifications received" means a monthly report that shall be submitted to the
			 department on a form provided by the department specifying the number of
			 voluntary and informed consent forms certified by each patient and received by
			 the physician before the patient is to receive an abortion.
(w) "Referring physician" means a physician
			 who refers a patient to an abortion provider and who is required to provide a
			 late term affidavit.
(x)
			 "Requirements related to reporting abortions" means the department's handbook
			 containing instructions describing how abortions shall be reported to the
			 department, either on a paper form or electronically, and copies of applicable
			 state statutes and regulations.
(y)
			 "Unborn child" means a living individual organism of the species Homo sapiens,
			 in utero, at any stage of gestation from fertilization to birth.
(z) "User agreement" means the required
			 document that entitles each abortion provider or the designee to access the
			 department's electronic abortion reporting system.
(aa) "Viable" has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-6701, and amendments thereto.
(bb) "Voluntary and informed consent form"
			 means the form provided by the department that is signed by the patient
			 authorizing an abortion provider to perform an abortion.