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SB 135 Virginia All Payer Claims Database; created, report.

Introduced by: Linda T. Puller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

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 and to improve the public health through understanding of health care expenditure patterns and operation and performance of the health care system. Entities that choose to submit claims data to the database shall do so pursuant to data use and submission agreements executed with the nonprofit organization that contracts with the Commissioner of Health for public health data needs. The bill also directs the Commissioner to develop a work group to study continuing health information needs in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to HB 343.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

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 and to improve the public health through understanding of health care expenditure patterns and operation and performance of the health care system. Entities that choose to submit claims data to the database shall do so pursuant to data use and submission agreements executed with the nonprofit organization that contracts with the Commissioner of Health for public health data needs. The bill also directs the Commissioner to develop a work group to study continuing health information needs in the Commonwealth. This bill incorporates SB 643.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

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.