---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 11134"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "11134"
heading: "Form of reporting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/11134"
units:
  - "Chapter 117 — Encouraging Good Faith Professional Review Activities"
  - "Subchapter II — Reporting of Information"
---

# §11134. Form of reporting

- (a) **Timing and form—** The information required to be reported under sections [11131](/usc/42/11131.md), [11132(a)](/usc/42/11132.md?p=a), and [11133](/usc/42/11133.md) of this title shall be reported regularly (but not less often than monthly) and in such form and manner as the [Secretary](/usc/42/11151.md?p=12) prescribes. Such information shall first be required to be reported on a date (not later than one year after November 14, 1986) specified by the [Secretary](/usc/42/11151.md?p=12).
- (b) **To whom reported—** The information required to be reported under sections [11131](/usc/42/11131.md), [11132(a)](/usc/42/11132.md?p=a), and [11133(b)](/usc/42/11133.md?p=b) of this title shall be reported to the [Secretary](/usc/42/11151.md?p=12), or, in the [Secretary](/usc/42/11151.md?p=12)’s discretion, to an appropriate private or [public agency](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) which has made suitable arrangements with the [Secretary](/usc/42/11151.md?p=12) with respect to receipt, storage, protection of confidentiality, and dissemination of the information under this subchapter.
- (c) **Reporting to State licensing boards—**
  - (1) **Malpractice payments—** Information required to be reported under [section 11131 of this title](/usc/42/11131.md) shall also be reported to the appropriate [State licensing board](/usc/42/11151.md?p=14) (or boards) in the [State](/usc/42/11151.md?p=13) in which the medical malpractice claim arose.
  - (2) **Reporting to other licensing boards—** Information required to be reported under [section 11133(b) of this title](/usc/42/11133.md?p=b) shall also be reported to the appropriate [State licensing board](/usc/42/11151.md?p=14) in the [State](/usc/42/11151.md?p=13) in which the [health care entity](/usc/42/11151.md?p=4-A) is located if it is not otherwise reported to such board under [subsection (b)](#b).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–660, title IV, § 424, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3790.)