23-01.1 Health Care Data Committee
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committee of the state health council, consisting of not less than three nor more than five
members, appointed by the chairman of the health council from the members of the council. A
majority of the members of the health care data committee must be consumer members of the
health council.23-01.1-02. Powers of health care data committee. To provide information to thepublic necessary for the enhancement of price competition in the health care market, the health
care data committee may:1.Collect, store, analyze, and provide health care data.2.Compile the average aggregate charges by diagnosis for the twenty-five most
common diagnoses, annual operating costs, revenues, capital expenditures, and
utilization for each nonfederal acute care hospital in this state, and the average
charges by source of payment and level of service in each long-term care facility in
this state.3.Establish a uniform format for the collection of information on charges to patients.4.Prepare an annual report comparing the cost of hospitalization by diagnosis in each
nonfederal acute care hospital and comparing average charges by source of
payment and by level of service in each long-term care facility in the state.5.Establish procedures that assure public availability of the information required to
make informed health care purchasing decisions.6.Establish arrangements with the state department of health, the department of
human services, the insurance commissioner, workforce safety and insurance, and
the public employees retirement system to assure patient confidentiality, the sharing
of information, and the coordination, analysis, and dissemination of health care data,
and to act in a manner which does not duplicate data collection activities of other
state agencies.7.Prepare and distribute a report comparing physicians' average charges for selected
services to include all physicians licensed to practice medicine in this state and
determined by the health care data committee to be actively providing direct patient
care services in this state.23-01.1-02.1. Publication of comparative physician fee information. The health caredata committee shall create a data collection, retention, processing, and reporting system that
will allow the distribution of information comparing the average fees charged by each licensed
physician practicing medicine in this state. Insurers, nonprofit health service corporations, health
maintenance organizations, and state agencies shall provide the data and information.Thecommittee shall prepare a report which must include a schedule of average fees charged for
services representative of the physician's type of practice and specialization and other
information that the data committee may determine are necessary for consumers to use in
comparing total physician costs and to assist policymakers or providers in their deliberations on
future health care decisions.23-01.1-03.Publication of a directory of licensed physicians.Repealed byS.L. 1991, ch. 262,