23-01.1 Health Care Data Committee
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<![CDATA[CHAPTER 23-01.1HEALTH CARE DATA COMMITTEE23-01.1-01.Health care data committee of state health council - Membership -Appointment by chairman of health council. The health care data committee is a standing<br>committee of the state health council, consisting of not less than three nor more than five<br>members, appointed by the chairman of the health council from the members of the council. A<br>majority of the members of the health care data committee must be consumer members of the<br>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<br>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<br>common diagnoses, annual operating costs, revenues, capital expenditures, and<br>utilization for each nonfederal acute care hospital in this state, and the average<br>charges by source of payment and level of service in each long-term care facility in<br>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<br>nonfederal acute care hospital and comparing average charges by source of<br>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<br>make informed health care purchasing decisions.6.Establish arrangements with the state department of health, the department of<br>human services, the insurance commissioner, workforce safety and insurance, and<br>the public employees retirement system to assure patient confidentiality, the sharing<br>of information, and the coordination, analysis, and dissemination of health care data,<br>and to act in a manner which does not duplicate data collection activities of other<br>state agencies.7.Prepare and distribute a report comparing physicians' average charges for selected<br>services to include all physicians licensed to practice medicine in this state and<br>determined by the health care data committee to be actively providing direct patient<br>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<br>will allow the distribution of information comparing the average fees charged by each licensed<br>physician practicing medicine in this state. Insurers, nonprofit health service corporations, health<br>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<br>services representative of the physician's type of practice and specialization and other<br>information that the data committee may determine are necessary for consumers to use in<br>comparing total physician costs and to assist policymakers or providers in their deliberations on<br>future health care decisions.23-01.1-03.Publication of a directory of licensed physicians.Repealed byS.L. 1991, ch. 262, </p>
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