Sec. 19a-654. (Formerly Sec. 19a-167k). Data submission requirements.
Sec. 19a-654. (Formerly Sec. 19a-167k). Data submission requirements. The
Office of Health Care Access shall require short-term acute care general or children's
hospitals to submit such data, including discharge data, as it deems necessary to fulfill
the responsibilities of the office. Such data shall include data taken from medical record
abstracts and hospital bills. The timing and format of such submission shall be specified
by the office. The data may be submitted through a contractual arrangement with an
intermediary. If the data is submitted through an intermediary, the hospital shall ensure
that such submission is timely and that the data is accurate. The office may conduct an
audit of the data submitted to such intermediary in order to verify its accuracy. Individual
patient and physician data identified by proper name or personal identification code
submitted pursuant to this section shall be kept confidential, but aggregate reports from
which individual patient and physician data cannot be identified shall be available to
the public.
(P.A. 89-371, S. 29, 31; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 02-101, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 95-257 replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective
July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-167k transferred to Sec. 19a-654 in 1997; P.A. 02-101 amended section to make provisions applicable
to "short-term acute care general or children's hospitals" and to require the submission of data necessary "to fulfill the
responsibilities of the office", rather than for "budget review purpose", effective July 1, 2002.
Annotation to former section 19a-167k:
Cited. 223 C. 450.