2006 Kansas Code - 65-6805

      65-6805.   Same; medical, health care and other entities to file health care data; exception. Each medical care facility as defined by subsection (h) of K.S.A. 65-425 and amendments thereto; health care provider as defined in K.S.A. 40-3401 and amendments thereto; providers of health care as defined in subsection (f) of K.S.A. 65-5001 and amendments thereto; health care personnel as defined in subsection (e) of K.S.A. 65-5001 and amendments thereto; home health agency as defined by subsection (b) of K.S.A. 65-5101 and amendments thereto; psychiatric hospitals licensed under K.S.A. 75-3307b and amendments thereto; state institutions for the mentally retarded; community mental retardation facilities as defined under K.S.A. 65-4412 and amendments thereto; community mental health center as defined under K.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; state board of pharmacy; state board of healing arts and third-party payors, including but not limited to, licensed insurers, medical and hospital service corporations, health maintenance organizations, fiscal intermediaries for government-funded programs and self-funded employee health plans, shall file health care data with the Kansas health policy authority as prescribed by the authority. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any individual, facility or other entity under this section which uses spiritual means through prayer alone in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination 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.