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2012 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Care

Newman (Chairman), Northam, Miller, J.C., Black, Garrett

Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Ellen Porter
Date of Meeting: January 31, 2012
Time and Place: Tuesday, 1/2 hr. after Senate Adjourns, 3 East Conference Room

S.B. 13 Lyme disease; adds both confirmed & suspected cases to list to be reported to Department of Health.

Patron: Black

Disease prevention and control; Lyme disease.  Adds both confirmed and suspected cases of Lyme disease to the list of diseases required to be reported to the Department of Health.

S.B. 135 Virginia All Payer Claims Database; creation.

Patron: Puller

Virginia All Payer Claims Database; creation. Establishes the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database system, in order to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care through understanding of health care expenditure patterns and operation and performance of the health care system. Data shall be made publicly available in a form that protects the identity of individual patients. The bill also creates the Advisory Board on Health Care Data Reporting to assist the Board of Health in developing regulations implementing the All-Payer Claims Database. Upon promulgation of final regulations implementing the Database, the existing statute dealing with the current survey of health carriers subject to HEDIS reporting is repealed.

S.B. 201 Hospital discharge of certain minors; information on services available.

Patron: Marsden

Hospital discharge of certain minors; information on services available.  Requires hospitals to provide information on available alcohol and substance abuse services to minors who present with alcohol poisoning or a drug overdose. The bill also requires hospitals in such cases to seek consent to have the local community services board or behavioral health authority follow up with the patient.

S.B. 214 Breach of medical information; notification.

Patron: Barker

Notification of breach of medical information.  Extends the requirement to notify individuals of a breach of their medical information to all individuals and public and private entities, rather than just governmental agencies. The bill also allows the Attorney General to impose a civil penalty not to exceed $150,000 per breach of the security system.

S.B. 643 Health information; Department of Health to establish work group to examine needs related to reform.

Patron: Saslaw

Health information needs; Department of Health work group.  Requires the Department of Health to establish a work group to examine the health information needs related to health care reform and to ensure that any new data collection is integrated with existing practices in an efficient manner.

S.B. 659 Medicaid; DMAS to develop and implement long-term care system.

Patron: Martin

Medicaid; coordinated long-term care.  Directs the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and implement a statewide fully integrated risk-based long-term care system that integrates Medicaid-reimbursed primary, acute, and long-term care services. The long-term care system shall expand access to and utilization of cost-effective home and community-based alternatives to institutional care for Medicaid-eligible individuals. The system shall include a nursing facility transition initiative, along with an expansion of community-based services, and an acuity-based methodology for reimbursement of nursing facility services.

S.B. 660 Vital records; records becoming public information.

Patron: Blevins

Vital records; records becoming public.  Requires records of birth after 100 years have elapsed from the date of birth and records of death, marriage, or divorce after 50 years have elapsed from the date of death, marriage, or divorce, to become public information.