In order to minimize the imposition of new reporting requirements on persons subject to the provisions of the Health Information System Act, the regulations to the extent reasonably possible shall provide that:
A. data shall be collected in a uniform manner;
B. when practicable, data collection shall be through the use of a standardized billing form as required by law;
C. other health data required to be submitted may include:
(1) data that would customarily be collected in the ordinary course of business for the data source;
(2) annual audited financial statements customarily prepared by a data source;
(3) information on major capital expenditures;
(4) data established by regulation to be collected to carry out the requirements of the Health Information System Act; and
(5) data required to be collected by other state or federal laws; and
D. annual surveys or collection of data may be used as an alternative to collection of health data from some health service providers to the extent it can be shown that the information collected will meet validity and quality standards.
History: Laws 1989, ch. 29, § 5; 1994, ch. 59, § 6.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1994 amendment, effective March 4, 1994, redesignated the subsections; deleted "health data collection" preceding "provisions" in the introductory language; deleted former Paragraph A(2) relating to obtaining data from third party payers; rewrote Subsections B and C; and deleted former Subsections B and E, relating to schedule of implementation and regulations, respectively.