Sec. 9. (a) The executive director shall do the following:
(1) Report to the governor and, in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6, to the general assembly not later than September 1 of each year on the following:
(A) The status of the operations of the data base.
(B) The financial stability of the data base.
(C) The status of efforts to obtain funding for the data base.
(2) Seek to establish agreements or requests with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to obtain their health claims data.
(3) Maximize private and federal funding opportunities, including private and federal grants, and the use of fees for the costs of implementing and operating the data base.
(4) Establish a fee formula for data licensing and claims data collection and release.
(5) Ensure privacy and security of the data collected.
(6) Provide leadership and coordination of public and private health care quality and performance measurements to ensure efficiency, cost effectiveness, transparency, and informed choice by consumers and public and private purchasers.
(7) Seek to establish agreements for voluntary reporting of health care claims data from health payers that are not subject to mandatory reporting requirements in order to ensure availability of the most comprehensive and systemwide data on health care costs and quality.
(8) Determine the data to be collected from health payers and the method of collection, including mandatory and voluntary reporting of health care and health quality data.
(9) Determine the measures necessary to implement the reporting requirements in a manner that is cost effective and reasonable for data sources and timely, relevant, and reliable for consumers, public and private purchasers, providers, and policymakers.
(10) Determine the reports and data to be made available to the public, with recommendations from the advisory board, in order to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, including conducting studies and reporting the results of the studies.
(b) The executive director may contract with third parties to collect and process the health care data collected under this chapter.
As added by P.L.195-2021, SEC.9.