Bill Text: CA SB275 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Health facility data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB275 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB275-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 275	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2015

   An act to add Section 128739 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health data.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 275, as introduced, Hernandez. Health facility data.
   Existing law requires certain health facilities and freestanding
ambulatory surgery clinics to file, with the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development, specified reports containing various
patient and health data information, including, among other things,
the patient's date of birth and source of admission. Existing law
also provides that the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development shall make allowances to adopt regulations adding or
deleting elements listed in the patient level data elements, as
specified.
   This bill would require the office to adopt a regulation adding
physician identifiers to the patient level data elements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 128739 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   128739.  The office shall adopt a regulation that adds physician
identifiers to the patient level data elements listed in subdivision
(g) of Sections 128735, 128736, and 128737.
                               
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