Section 128735 Of Part 5. Health Data From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 107. >> Part 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 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
patient's 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.
(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 patient's 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.