Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 048 - Health, Department of › Sub-Agency 0057 - Tumor Registry, Central › Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
				  and enforcement of these rules and regulations.
(a) "ACoS" means the American College of
				Surgeons Commission on Cancer.
(b)
				"Billing Period" means January 1 through December 31 of each calendar
				year.
(c) ''Cancer" means diagnosis
				of disease to include carcinoma, sarcoma, melanoma, leukemia and
				lymphoma.
(d) "Case Eligibility
				Criteria'' means criteria determined by the ACoS as reportable cases of cancer,
				supplied by the State Agency.
(e)
				"Case Finding" means screen hospital listing of patient admit and outpatient
				visits by ICD-9 code to determine patients with a new diagnosis or history of
				cancer. Screen pathology department autopsy, cytology and pathology reports to
				determine patients with a new diagnosis or history of cancer.
(f) "Clinical Laboratory" means a facility
				for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, biophysical,
				cytological or pathological examination of materials derived from a human body
				for the purpose of obtaining information for the diagnosis, prevention or
				treatment of disease or assessment of medical conditions.
(g) "Completed Registration" means all of a
				cancer patients available data items required by the ACoS in format specified
				in manuals required by the State Agency.
(h) "Confidential statistical records" means
				a group of any records under the control of an agency from which information is
				retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol,
				or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.
(i) "Epidemiologist" means one who
				specializes in the practice of the science concerned with the study of the
				factors determining and influencing the frequency and distribution of disease,
				injury, and other health-related events and their causes in a defined human
				population for the purpose of establishing programs to prevent and control
				their development and spread.
(j)
				"Health Care Provider" means a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise
				authorized by the law of this state to provide health care in the ordinary
				course of business or practice of a profession, but does not include a person
				who provides health care solely through the sale or dispensing of
				drugs.
(k) "Hospitals" means
				establishments with organized medical staffs, with permanent facilities that
				include in-patient beds; and with medical services, including physician
				services and continuous nursing services; to provide diagnosis, treatment, and
				continuity of care for patients.
(l) "Hospital Authority" means administrator
				or person appointed by the administrator.
(m) "Hospital Cancer Registrar" means a
				person on staff or contracted by a Wyoming Hospital, who is assigned the
				responsibility of completed registration of all required cancer cases to the
				State Agency.
(n) "Infirmaries of
				Wyoming Institutional Facilities" means a place where ill persons are cared for
				within lodging facilities owned and operated by the State of Wyoming.
(o) "ICD-9" means International
				Classification of Diseases.
(p)
				"NAACCR" means North American Association of Central Cancer
				Registries.
(q) "Nonconfidential
				statistical data" means nonidentifying masses of numerical data which summarize
				disease factors.
(r) "Nursing Care
				Facilities" means a facility which is currently licensed and certified to
				provide skilled nursing services and/or intermediate nursing
				services.
(s) ''Patient" means an
				individual who receives or has received health care and/or a deceased
				individual who has received health care.
(t) "Patient Follow-up" means annual
				investigation and recording of patient status and of patients disease required
				by ACoS.
(u) ''Physician" means a
				term used to indicate individuals appropriately licensed in Wyoming.
(v) ''Private Office" means a term used to
				indicate office space used by physician in private practice.
(w) "Rules" means to be construed to embrace
				and be synonymous with the term regulation.
(x) "Semi-Annually" means every six months
				(twice a year). Schedule will be established and agreed on between each
				individual hospital and the State Agency.
(y) "Shall" means State Agency
				requirement.
(z) "State Agency
				means" the Wyoming Department of Health, Division of Public Health, Preventive
				Medicine Branch, office of the Wyoming Central Tumor Registry.