Hospital required to use form for all patients discharged; regulations; hospitals with more than 200 beds to provide information on magnetic tape or by other means.
1. Each hospital in this state shall use for all patients discharged the form commonly referred to as the “UB-82,” or a different form prescribed by the Director with the approval of a majority of the hospitals licensed in this state, and shall include in the form all information required by the Department.
2. The Department shall by regulation:
(a) Specify the information required to be included in the form for each patient; and
(b) Require each hospital to provide specified information from the form to the Department.
3. Each insurance company or other payer shall accept the form as the bill for services provided by hospitals in this state.
4. Each hospital with more than 200 beds shall provide the information required pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 2 on magnetic tape or by other means specified by the Department, or shall provide copies of the forms and pay the costs of entering the information manually from the copies.
Last modified: February 26, 2006