2011 Connecticut Code
Title 19a Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368z Office of Health Care Access
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 division of the Department of Public Health 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; P.A. 10-179, S. 109.)

      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; P.A. 10-179 replaced "Office of Health Care Access" with "Office of Health Care Access division of the Department of Public Health".

      Annotation to former section 19a-167k:

      Cited. 223 C. 450.