Bill Text: TX SB1548 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to health care data collection requirements and a feasibility study on the use of the data to create a database of amounts billed for certain health care services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1548 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1548-Introduced.html
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By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1548 |
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relating to health care data collection requirements and a | ||
feasibility study on the use of the data to create a database of | ||
amounts billed for certain health care services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 108.002(10), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(10) "Health care facility" means: | ||
(A) a hospital; | ||
(B) an ambulatory surgical center licensed under | ||
Chapter 243; | ||
(C) a chemical dependency treatment facility | ||
licensed under Chapter 464; | ||
(D) a renal dialysis facility; | ||
(E) a birthing center; | ||
(F) a rural health clinic; | ||
(G) a federally qualified health center as | ||
defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B); [ |
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(H) a free-standing imaging center; or | ||
(I) a freestanding emergency medical care | ||
facility, as defined by Section 254.001, including a freestanding | ||
emergency medical care facility that is exempt from the licensing | ||
requirements of Chapter 254 under Section 254.052(8). | ||
SECTION 2. (a) In this section, "department" means the | ||
Department of State Health Services. | ||
(b) The department shall conduct a study on the feasibility | ||
of using the information provided to the department under the | ||
statewide health care data collection system developed under | ||
Section 108.006, Health and Safety Code, for creating a database | ||
accessible through the Texas Health Care Information Collection | ||
website. The database must: | ||
(1) be searchable; | ||
(2) include the average and percentile billed charges | ||
for health care procedures performed at inpatient care facilities, | ||
outpatient care facilities, and hospital outpatient departments; | ||
and | ||
(3) categorize the information described by | ||
Subdivision (2) of this subsection according to the American | ||
Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology code for the | ||
health care procedure associated with the amount billed. | ||
(c) In conducting the feasibility study under Subsection | ||
(b) of this section, the department shall evaluate the cost of | ||
making the database accessible to: | ||
(1) the public at no cost; | ||
(2) health care providers at a cost; and | ||
(3) both the public at no cost and health care | ||
providers at a cost. | ||
(d) Not later than December 1, 2020, the department shall | ||
report the results of the study required under this section to the | ||
governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of | ||
representatives, and members of the appropriate standing | ||
committees of the senate and the house of representatives. | ||
(e) The department may contract with a third-party entity to | ||
conduct the study required under this section. | ||
(f) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |