California Newborn Screening Program

Other Information and Letters to Providers

Other Information

• Disorders Detectable by Newborn Screening (PDF)
• Descriptions of Disorders Detectable by MS/MS (PDF)
• Hemoglobin Trait Fact Sheet for Providers (PDF)
• A Parents' Handbook for Sickle Cell Disease - Part II (Six to Eighteen Years of Age) (PDF)
• California Version - NCCLS Specimen Collection Video Order Form (PDF)
• New 2007 Specimen Collection Form Poster (PDF)

Letters to Providers

Change in Transfusion Protocols - June 18th, 2007

• Letter to Providers/Stakeholders (PDF)
• Attachment - ASC Regions (PDF)
• NBS News - Summer 2007 (PDF)

Newborn Screening Change in CPT Codes - June 14th, 2007 (PDF)

Fee Increase Letter - July 21, 2006

• Letter to Hospital Directors (PDF)

Changes to CAH Screening - March 1, 2006

• Letter to Hospitals/Neonatologists (PDF)
• CAH cutoffs (PDF)

Program Expansion - July 11, 2005

• Hospital Administrators (PDF) , enclosures: NBS results mailer (PDF) , NBS News - Summer 2005 (PDF)
• Pediatric Care Providers (PDF) , enclosures: NBS results mailer (PDF) , NBS News - Summer 2005 (PDF)
• Prenatal Care Providers (PDF) , enclosures: NBS News - Summer 2005 (PDF)

NBS Fee Increase Effective January 1, 2005 (PDF)

Program Expansion - October 12, 2004

• Newborn Screening Providers (PDF)

Specimen Batching Letter - September 17, 2004 (PDF)

Liability Issues in Newborn Screening - February 27, 2004 (PDF)