CHAPTER 1. Health Facility Data

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9.

§§ 128675–128810 · 32 sections

§ 128675 This chapter shall be known as the Health Data and Advisory Council Consolidation Act.
§ 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…
§ 128685 Intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled-habilitative, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 1250, are not subject to this chapter.
§ 128690 Intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled—nursing, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 1250, and intermediate care facilities/developmentally…
§ 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…
§ 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 shall be…
§ 128730 (a) Effective January 1, 1986, the department shall be the single state agency designated to collect the following health facility or clinic data for use by…
§ 128734 (a) Each organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a skilled nursing facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1250 shall file…
§ 128734.1 (a) (1) Commencing with fiscal years ending December 31, 2023, an organization that operates, conducts, owns, manages, or maintains a skilled nursing facility…
§ 128735 An organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, shall make and file with the department, at the times…
§ 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…
§ 128737 (a) Each general acute care hospital and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic shall file an Ambulatory Surgery Data Record for each patient encounter during…
§ 128738 (a) The department shall allow and provide for, in accordance with appropriate regulations, additions or deletions to the patient level data elements listed in…
§ 128740 (a) The following summary financial and utilization data shall be reported to the department by a hospital within 45 days of the end of a calendar quarter.…
§ 128745 (a) Commencing July 1993, and annually thereafter, the department shall publish risk-adjusted outcome reports in accordance with the following schedule:…
§ 128747 Commencing July 1, 2002, and biennially thereafter, the department shall evaluate the impact of the department’s published risk-adjusted outcome reports…
§ 128748 (a) This section shall apply to any risk-adjusted outcome report under Section 128745. (b) This subdivision applies to risk-adjusted outcome reports under…
§ 128750 (a) Prior to the public release of the annual outcome reports, the department shall furnish a preliminary report to each hospital that is included in the…
§ 128755 (a) (1) Hospitals shall file the reports required by subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 128735 with the department within four months after the…
§ 128760 (a) On and after January 1, 1986, the systems of health facility accounting and auditing formerly approved by the California Health Facilities Commission shall…
§ 128765 (a) The department shall maintain a file of all the reports filed under this chapter at its Sacramento office. Subject to any rules the department may…
§ 128766 (a) Notwithstanding Section 128765 or any other provision of law, the department, upon request, shall disclose information collected pursuant to subdivision…
§ 128770 (a) Any health facility or freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic that does not file any report as required by this chapter with the department is liable for a…
§ 128775 (a) Any health facility or freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic affected by any determination made under this part by the department may petition the…
§ 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…
§ 128782 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of a small and rural hospital, as defined in Section 124840, the department shall do all of the…
§ 128785 On January 1, 1986, all regulations previously adopted by the California Health Facilities Commission that relate to functions vested in the department and…
§ 128790 Pursuant to Section 16304.9 of the Government Code, the Controller shall transfer to the department the unexpended balance of funds as of January 1, 1986, in…
§ 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…
§ 128800 The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, or other property,…
§ 128805 The department may enter into agreements and contracts with any person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity as are necessary to carry out the…
§ 128810 The department shall administer this chapter and shall make all regulations necessary to implement the provisions and achieve the purposes stated herein.