Section 126-S:1 Database Development and Use.
I. The commissioner of the insurance department and the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for collaboration in the development of an uninsured health care database. The memorandum of understanding shall include a description of the uninsured database, the criteria and procedures for the collection and the release of the uninsured data set, the requirements for reporting information on the uninsured, and the sharing of the hospital discharge data set as described in RSA 126:25, I(d) and RSA 126:25, IV.
II. To the extent allowed by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the data shall be available as a resource tool for policy analysts, insurers, legislators, employers, health care providers, purchasers of health care, and state agencies to review the uninsured population's utilization of health care, the cost of services provided to the uninsured, and the effect of that utilization on the commercial insurance market.
III. The uninsured health care database shall not include any data that contains direct personal identifiers. For the purposes of this section, ""direct personal identifiers'' shall include information relating to an individual that contains primary identifiers, such as the individual's name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number, and social security number.
IV. No provider shall be required to submit data until such time as the collection rules adopted pursuant to RSA 126-S:2 become effective.
Source. 2009, 307:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.