# South Dakota Department of Health - Rule Changes Summary The Department of Health is streamlining its regulations by eliminating redundant rules on controlled drug storage in long-term care facilities—since the Board of Pharmacy already covers this—and simplifying hospital charge reporting requirements. For long-term care and hospital facilities, the rules now require them to report attempted suicides directly to the Department of Health within 24 hours (not just to external agencies), and hospital facilities must report such incidents on the department's online system. Hospital charge reporting deadlines have been consolidated from quarterly to two semi-annual reporting periods (by October 1 for January-June data and by April 1 for July-December data), and unnecessary definitions and publication requirements have been removed to reduce administrative burden.
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Repeal provisions related to emergency supplies of controlled drugs in longer term care facilities that are duplicative of Board of Pharmacy regulations, repeal unnecessary definitions, update statutory references, update timelines for reporting of data, and repeal un-necessary or duplicative language as it relates to hospital charge reporting, and correct technical errors made in 2023 and 2024 to require reporting of attempted suicides in health care facilities to the Department of Health
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