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2001 SESSION

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HB 2763 Health; outpatient data collection.

Introduced by: Robert H. Brink | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Health; outpatient data collection. Requires health care providers, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and physicians, to report data on outpatient surgery procedures to the Virginia Patient Level Data System. No fees will be charged by the nonprofit organization for the submission of outpatient data for the first twelve months of data submission; however, after twelve months, the nonprofit organization may charge a fee of up to one dollar for those records its determines are not processed, verifiable data. The confidentiality of inpatient level data continues to be protected and may be publicly released only when the information released is designed to prevent persons from being able to gain access to combinations of patient characteristic data elements that reasonably could be expected to reveal the identity of any patient; outpatient surgical charge data will only be made publicly available pursuant to a review by the Joint Commission on Health Care. The nonprofit health data organization must conduct a pilot study to assess the impact of requiring the submission of outpatient surgical data, including the logistics and costs as well as the potential value of the submission of such information.


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