Data collection.

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Affected by 63I-2-226 on 1/1/2023

Effective 5/9/2017
26-8a-203. Data collection.
  • (1) The committee shall specify the information that shall be collected for the emergency medical services data system established pursuant to Subsection (2).
  • (2)
    • (a) The department shall establish an emergency medical services data system which shall provide for the collection of information, as defined by the committee, relating to the treatment and care of patients who use or have used the emergency medical services system.
    • (b) Beginning July 1, 2017, the committee shall coordinate with the Health Data Authority created in Chapter 33a, Utah Health Data Authority Act, to create a report of data collected by the Health Data Committee under Section 26-33a-106.1 regarding:
      • (i) appropriate analytical methods;
      • (ii) the total amount of air ambulance flight charges in the state for a one-year period; and
      • (iii) of the total number of flights in a one-year period under Subsection (2)(b)(i):
        • (A) the number of flights for which a patient had no personal responsibility for paying part of the flight charges;
        • (B) the number of flights for which a patient had personal responsibility to pay all or part of the flight charges;
        • (C) the range of flight charges for which patients had personal responsibility under Subsection (2)(b)(iii)(B), including the median amount for paid patient personal responsibility; and
        • (D) the name of any air ambulance provider that received a median paid amount for patient responsibility in excess of the median amount for all paid patient personal responsibility during the reporting year.
  • (3)
    • (a) The department shall, beginning October 1, 2017, and on or before each October 1 thereafter, make the information in Subsection (2)(b) public and send the information in Subsection (2)(b) to:
      • (i) the Health and Human Services Interim Committee; and
      • (ii) public safety dispatchers and first responders in the state.
    • (b) Before making the information in Subsection (2)(b) public, the committee shall provide the air ambulance providers named in the report with the opportunity to respond to the accuracy of the information in the report under Section 26-33a-107.
  • (4) Persons providing emergency medical services:
    • (a) shall provide information to the department for the emergency medical services data system established pursuant to Subsection (2)(a);
    • (b) are not required to provide information to the department under Subsection (2)(b); and
    • (c) may provide information to the department under Subsection (2)(b) or (3)(b).




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