Section 505.50  Availability of Information

a)         All Reports of Induced Pregnancy Termination and Reports of Subsequent Complications after an Induced Termination of Pregnancy will be treated as confidential and are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

b)         The Department will compile the information contained in the Reports of Induced Pregnancy Termination and issue reports of aggregate data as it deems necessary.

c)         The Department will compile a Public Use File upon request.  Any person or entity making a request shall pay the cost of producing the Public Use File.  If a Public Use File has already been produced and paid for, each succeeding requestor shall pay only the cost of duplicating it.

d)         Data compiled from the Reports of Induced Pregnancy Termination and Reports of Subsequent Complications after an Induced Termination of Pregnancy, other than the Public Use Files, will not be released outside the Department.

e)         The Department will disclose individual patient or facility information only to the physician who originally supplied that information to the Department, upon written request of the physician.

f)         The patient identifying information submitted to the Department by those entities required to submit information under the Law and this Part is to be used in the course of medical study under the Medical Studies Act.  Therefore, the information is not admissible as evidence or discoverable in any action of any kind, in any court or before any tribunal, board, agency or person.

(Source:  Amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 1744, effective January 23, 2013)