HB 626 -- Health Care Data Collection

Sponsor:  Schaaf

This bill changes the laws regarding the collection and reporting
of health care data by hospitals.  In its main provisions, the
bill:

(1)  Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to
collect data on the 100 most common conditions and procedures for
hospitals beginning April 1, 2006;

(2)  Requires the department to establish, by rule, a list of the
100 most common inpatient and outpatient conditions and
procedures for hospitals by March 1, 2006;

(3)  Requires the department to convene a group of technical
experts to assist with compiling the list of common conditions
and procedures;

(4)  Requires the department to promulgate rules specifying
requirements for the collection and reporting of data about
health care conditions by July 1, 2006;

(5)  Specifies that hospitals must provide charge data and
financial data to the department at least once a year;

(6)  Requires hospitals to provide patient abstract data within
30 days of the end of each quarter for each person who was
admitted to the hospital or who received outpatient or emergency
care;

(7)  Requires the collection, compilation, analysis, and
dissemination of information obtained by the department from
hospitals to be done in a way that protects patient
confidentiality and privacy;

(8)  Allows the department to authorize the use of patient
abstract data by specified groups or individuals and allows the
department to determine fees for providing access to the data;

(9)  Requires the department, by July 1, 2006, to make available
on its web site information about performance outcomes using the
patient outcome data, an explanation of the data, and educational
information about each condition or procedure;

(10)  Specifies that the failure of hospitals to report data to
the department may result in sanctions to the hospital's license;
and

(11)  Establishes the Missouri Adverse Health Care Event
Reporting Act of 2005, which requires the department, by July 1,
2006, to establish an adverse health event reporting system for
hospitals to report the occurrence of any of the specified
adverse health care events, patient prevention events, care
management events, environmental events, and criminal events.

The provisions of the bill will expire six years from the
effective date.

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated August 25, 2005 at 1:20 pm