California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Health Facility Data

• Section 128675.
  This chapter shall be known as the Health Data and Advisory Council Consolidation Act.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1996.)
• Section 128680.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:(a) Significant changes have taken place in recent years in the health care marketplace and in the manner of reimbursement...
• Section 128681.
  The office shall conduct, under contract with a qualified consulting firm, a comprehensive review of the financial and utilization reports that hospitals are required to...
• Section 128685.
  Intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled-habilitative, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 1250, are not subject to this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9....
• Section 128690.
  Intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled—nursing, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 1250, are not subject to this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9....
• Section 128700.
  As used in this chapter, the following terms mean:(a) “Ambulatory surgery procedures” mean those procedures performed on an outpatient basis in the general operating rooms, ambulatory...
• Section 128705.
  On and after January 1, 1986, any reference in this code to the Advisory Health Council or the California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission...
• Section 128730.
  (a) Effective January 1, 1986, the office shall be the single state agency designated to collect the following health facility or clinic data for use by...
• Section 128735.
  An organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, shall make and file with the office, at the times...
• Section 128736.
  (a)  Each hospital shall file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department. The Emergency Care Data Record shall...
• Section 128737.
  (a) Each general acute care hospital and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic shall file an Ambulatory Surgery Data Record for each patient encounter during which at least...
• Section 128738.
  (a) The office shall allow and provide for, in accordance with appropriate regulations, additions or deletions to the patient level data elements listed in subdivision (g)...
• Section 128740.
  (a) Commencing with the first calendar quarter of 1992, the following summary financial and utilization data shall be reported to the office by each hospital within...
• Section 128745.
  (a) Commencing July 1993, and annually thereafter, the office shall publish risk-adjusted outcome reports in accordance with the following schedule:Procedures andPublicationPeriodConditions Date CoveredCoveredJuly 19931988–903July 19941989–916July 19951990–929Reports for...
• Section 128747.
  Commencing July 1, 2002, and biennially thereafter, the office shall evaluate the impact of the office’s published risk-adjusted outcome reports required by Sections 128745 and...
• Section 128748.
  (a)  This section shall apply to any risk-adjusted outcome report that includes reporting of data by an individual physician. (b)  (1)  The office shall obtain...
• Section 128750.
  (a) Prior to the public release of the annual outcome reports, the office shall furnish a preliminary report to each hospital that is included in the...
• Section 128755.
  (a) (1) Hospitals shall file the reports required by subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 128735 with the office within four months after the close...
• Section 128760.
  (a) On and after January 1, 1986, those systems of health facility accounting and auditing formerly approved by the California Health Facilities Commission shall remain in...
• Section 128765.
  (a) The office shall maintain a file of all the reports filed under this chapter at its Sacramento office. Subject to any rules the office may...
• Section 128766.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 128765 or any other provision of law, the office, upon request, shall disclose information collected pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 128735 and...
• Section 128770.
  (a) Any health facility or freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic that does not file any report as required by this chapter with the office is liable for...
• Section 128775.
  (a) Any health facility or freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic affected by any determination made under this part by the office may petition the office for review...
• Section 128780.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the disclosure aspects of this chapter shall be deemed complete with respect to district hospitals, and no district hospital...
• Section 128782.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of a small and rural hospital, as defined in Section 124840, the office shall do all...
• Section 128785.
  On January 1, 1986, all regulations previously adopted by the California Health Facilities Commission that relate to functions vested in the office and that are...
• Section 128790.
  Pursuant to Section 16304.9 of the Government Code, the Controller shall transfer to the office the unexpended balance of funds as of January 1, 1986,...
• Section 128795.
  All officers and employees of the California Health Facilities Commission who, on December 31, 1985, are serving the state civil service, other than as temporary...
• Section 128800.
  The office shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, or other property, real or personal, held...
• Section 128805.
  The office may enter into agreements and contracts with any person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity as are necessary to carry out the functions...
• Section 128810.
  The office shall administer this chapter and shall make all regulations necessary to implement the provisions and achieve the purposes stated herein.(Amended by Stats. 2011,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018