65-6805. Same; medical, health care and other entities to file health care data; exception.
65-6805
65-6805. Same; medical, health care and other entities to file health caredata; exception.Eachmedical care facility as defined by subsection (h) of K.S.A. 65-425 andamendments thereto; health care provider as defined in K.S.A. 40-3401 andamendments thereto;providers of health care as defined in subsection (f) of K.S.A. 65-5001 andamendments thereto; health care personnel as defined in subsection (e) ofK.S.A. 65-5001 and amendments thereto; home health agency as defined bysubsection (b) of K.S.A. 65-5101 and amendments thereto;psychiatric hospitals licensed under K.S.A. 75-3307b andamendmentsthereto; state institutions for the mentallyretarded; community mental retardation facilities as defined under K.S.A.65-4412 and amendments thereto; community mental health center as defined underK.S.A. 65-4432 and amendments thereto; adult care homes as defined by K.S.A.39-923 and amendments thereto;laboratories described in K.S.A. 65-1,107 and amendments thereto; pharmacies;board of nursing; Kansas dental board; board of examiners in optometry; stateboard of pharmacy; state board of healing arts and third-party payors,including but not limited to, licensed insurers,medical andhospital service corporations, health maintenance organizations, fiscalintermediaries for government-funded programs and self-funded employee healthplans, shall file health care data with the Kansas health policyauthority as prescribedby the authority.The provisions of this section shall not apply to any individual, facility orother entity under this section which uses spiritual means through prayer alonein accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religiousdenomination for the treatment or cure of disease.
History: L. 1993, ch. 174, § 5;L. 1994, ch. 90, § 4;L. 2005, ch. 187, § 33; Jan. 1, 2006.