California 2019 2019-2020 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB774 Enrolled / Bill

Filed 09/11/2019

                    Enrolled  September 11, 2019 Passed IN  Senate  September 05, 2019 Passed IN  Assembly  September 09, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  August 30, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  July 09, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  June 26, 2019 Amended IN  Assembly  April 01, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 774Introduced by Assembly Member ReyesFebruary 19, 2019 An act to amend Sections 128735 and 128736 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 774, Reyes. Health facilities: reporting.Existing law requires an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility and its officers to file various reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, including for hospitals only, a Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes specified information, including the source of the patients admission. Existing law also requires hospitals to file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department with the office. Existing law requires the record to contain specified patient and health data information, including the service date.This bill would additionally require the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record to note, when the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care. The bill would further require the Emergency Care Data Record to include the date and time of service and date and time of release from emergency care.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 343 to be operative only if this bill and SB 343 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act for service time reporting to accurately reflect the time an individual spends in emergency department care.SEC. 2. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.SEC. 2.5. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.SEC. 3. Section 128736 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 include all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) Ethnicity.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) ZIP Code.(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(8) Service date and time.(9) Principal diagnosis.(10) Other diagnoses.(11) External causes of morbidity.(12) Principal procedure.(13) Other procedures.(14) Disposition of patient.(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.(16) Expected source of payment.(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.SEC. 4. Section 2.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 343. That section of this bill shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2020, (2) each bill amends Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Senate Bill 343, in which case Section 2 of this bill shall not become operative.

 Enrolled  September 11, 2019 Passed IN  Senate  September 05, 2019 Passed IN  Assembly  September 09, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  August 30, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  July 09, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  June 26, 2019 Amended IN  Assembly  April 01, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 774Introduced by Assembly Member ReyesFebruary 19, 2019 An act to amend Sections 128735 and 128736 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 774, Reyes. Health facilities: reporting.Existing law requires an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility and its officers to file various reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, including for hospitals only, a Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes specified information, including the source of the patients admission. Existing law also requires hospitals to file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department with the office. Existing law requires the record to contain specified patient and health data information, including the service date.This bill would additionally require the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record to note, when the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care. The bill would further require the Emergency Care Data Record to include the date and time of service and date and time of release from emergency care.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 343 to be operative only if this bill and SB 343 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO 

 Enrolled  September 11, 2019 Passed IN  Senate  September 05, 2019 Passed IN  Assembly  September 09, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  August 30, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  July 09, 2019 Amended IN  Senate  June 26, 2019 Amended IN  Assembly  April 01, 2019

Enrolled  September 11, 2019
Passed IN  Senate  September 05, 2019
Passed IN  Assembly  September 09, 2019
Amended IN  Senate  August 30, 2019
Amended IN  Senate  July 09, 2019
Amended IN  Senate  June 26, 2019
Amended IN  Assembly  April 01, 2019

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill 

No. 774

Introduced by Assembly Member ReyesFebruary 19, 2019

Introduced by Assembly Member Reyes
February 19, 2019

 An act to amend Sections 128735 and 128736 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 774, Reyes. Health facilities: reporting.

Existing law requires an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility and its officers to file various reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, including for hospitals only, a Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes specified information, including the source of the patients admission. Existing law also requires hospitals to file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department with the office. Existing law requires the record to contain specified patient and health data information, including the service date.This bill would additionally require the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record to note, when the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care. The bill would further require the Emergency Care Data Record to include the date and time of service and date and time of release from emergency care.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 343 to be operative only if this bill and SB 343 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Existing law requires an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility and its officers to file various reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, including for hospitals only, a Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes specified information, including the source of the patients admission. Existing law also requires hospitals to file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department with the office. Existing law requires the record to contain specified patient and health data information, including the service date.

This bill would additionally require the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record to note, when the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care. The bill would further require the Emergency Care Data Record to include the date and time of service and date and time of release from emergency care.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 343 to be operative only if this bill and SB 343 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act for service time reporting to accurately reflect the time an individual spends in emergency department care.SEC. 2. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.SEC. 2.5. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.SEC. 3. Section 128736 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 include all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) Ethnicity.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) ZIP Code.(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(8) Service date and time.(9) Principal diagnosis.(10) Other diagnoses.(11) External causes of morbidity.(12) Principal procedure.(13) Other procedures.(14) Disposition of patient.(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.(16) Expected source of payment.(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.SEC. 4. Section 2.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 343. That section of this bill shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2020, (2) each bill amends Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Senate Bill 343, in which case Section 2 of this bill shall not become operative.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act for service time reporting to accurately reflect the time an individual spends in emergency department care.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act for service time reporting to accurately reflect the time an individual spends in emergency department care.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act for service time reporting to accurately reflect the time an individual spends in emergency department care.

### SECTION 1.

SEC. 2. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.

SEC. 2. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

### SEC. 2.

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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.

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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.

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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.



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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:

(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.

(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.

(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center, except that hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760 are not required to report revenue by revenue center.

(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.

(e) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization, except those hospitals authorized to report as a group pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 128760.

(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.

(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:

(1) Date of birth.

(2) Sex.

(3) Race.

(4) ZIP Code.

(5) Preferred language spoken.

(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.

(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:

(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.

(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.

(8) Admission date.

(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.

(10) Type of admission.

(11) Discharge date.

(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.

(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.

(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.

(15) Principal procedure and date.

(16) Other procedures and dates.

(17) Total charges.

(18) Disposition of patient.

(19) Expected source of payment.

(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.

(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).

(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).

(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.

SEC. 2.5. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.

SEC. 2.5. Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

### SEC. 2.5.

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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.

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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.

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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) ZIP Code.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.(8) Admission date.(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.(10) Type of admission.(11) Discharge date.(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.(15) Principal procedure and date.(16) Other procedures and dates.(17) Total charges.(18) Disposition of patient.(19) Expected source of payment.(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.



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 as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that are in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:

(a) A balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the health facility at the end of its fiscal year.

(b) A statement of income, expenses, and operating surplus or deficit for the annual fiscal period, and a statement of ancillary utilization and patient census.

(c) A statement detailing patient revenue by payer, including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other payers, and revenue center.

(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.

(e) (1) A statement reporting the information required in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) for each separately licensed health facility operated, conducted, or maintained by the reporting organization.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.

(f) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards, as applicable.

(g) A Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes all of the following:

(1) Date of birth.

(2) Sex.

(3) Race.

(4) ZIP Code.

(5) Preferred language spoken.

(6) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.

(7) Prehospital care and resuscitation, if any, including all of the following:

(A) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order on admission.

(B) Do not resuscitate (DNR) order after admission.

(8) Admission date.

(9) Source of admission. When the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care shall also be noted.

(10) Type of admission.

(11) Discharge date.

(12) Principal diagnosis and whether the condition was present on admission.

(13) Other diagnoses and whether the conditions were present on admission.

(14) External causes of morbidity and whether present on admission.

(15) Principal procedure and date.

(16) Other procedures and dates.

(17) Total charges.

(18) Disposition of patient.

(19) Expected source of payment.

(20) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.

(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).

(i) A person reporting data pursuant to this section shall not be liable for damages in an action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).

(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.

(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the office shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the office finalizes related regulations.

SEC. 3. Section 128736 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: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 include all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) Ethnicity.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) ZIP Code.(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(8) Service date and time.(9) Principal diagnosis.(10) Other diagnoses.(11) External causes of morbidity.(12) Principal procedure.(13) Other procedures.(14) Disposition of patient.(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.(16) Expected source of payment.(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.

SEC. 3. Section 128736 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

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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 include all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) Ethnicity.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) ZIP Code.(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(8) Service date and time.(9) Principal diagnosis.(10) Other diagnoses.(11) External causes of morbidity.(12) Principal procedure.(13) Other procedures.(14) Disposition of patient.(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.(16) Expected source of payment.(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.

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 include all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) Ethnicity.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) ZIP Code.(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(8) Service date and time.(9) Principal diagnosis.(10) Other diagnoses.(11) External causes of morbidity.(12) Principal procedure.(13) Other procedures.(14) Disposition of patient.(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.(16) Expected source of payment.(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.

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 include all of the following:(1) Date of birth.(2) Sex.(3) Race.(4) Ethnicity.(5) Preferred language spoken.(6) ZIP Code.(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.(8) Service date and time.(9) Principal diagnosis.(10) Other diagnoses.(11) External causes of morbidity.(12) Principal procedure.(13) Other procedures.(14) Disposition of patient.(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.(16) Expected source of payment.(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.



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 include all of the following:

(1) Date of birth.

(2) Sex.

(3) Race.

(4) Ethnicity.

(5) Preferred language spoken.

(6) ZIP Code.

(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patients medical record.

(8) Service date and time.

(9) Principal diagnosis.

(10) Other diagnoses.

(11) External causes of morbidity.

(12) Principal procedure.

(13) Other procedures.

(14) Disposition of patient.

(15) Date and time of release from emergency care.

(16) Expected source of payment.

(17) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.

(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patients rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).

(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).

(d) Data reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.

SEC. 4. Section 2.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 343. That section of this bill shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2020, (2) each bill amends Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Senate Bill 343, in which case Section 2 of this bill shall not become operative.

SEC. 4. Section 2.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 343. That section of this bill shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2020, (2) each bill amends Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Senate Bill 343, in which case Section 2 of this bill shall not become operative.

SEC. 4. Section 2.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 343. That section of this bill shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2020, (2) each bill amends Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Senate Bill 343, in which case Section 2 of this bill shall not become operative.

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