Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 442 § 442.373 — Health

Health care data reporting by health insurers; rules; fees. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall establish and maintain a program that requires reporting entities to report health care data for the following purposes: (a) Determining the maximum capacity and distribution of existing resources allocated to health care. (b) Identifying the demands for health care. (c) Allowing health care policymakers to make informed choices. (d) Evaluating the effectiveness of intervention programs in improving health outcomes. (e) Comparing the costs and effectiveness of various treatment settings and approaches. (f) Providing information to consumers and purchasers of health care. (g) Improving the quality and affordability of health care and health care coverage. (h) Assisting the authority in furthering the health policies expressed by the Legislative Assembly in ORS 442.310. (i) Evaluating health disparities, including but not limited to disparities related to race and ethnicity. (2) The authority shall prescribe by rule standards that: (a) Establish the time, place, form and manner of reporting data under this section, including but not limited to: (A) Requiring the use of unique patient and provider identifiers; (B) Specifying a uniform coding system that reflects all health care utilization and costs for health care services provided to Oregon residents in other states; and (C) Establishing enrollment thresholds below which reporting will not be required. (b) Establish the types of data to be reported under this section, including but not limited to: (A) Health care claims and enrollment data used by reporting entities and paid health care claims data; (B) Reports, schedules, statistics or other data relating to health care costs, prices, quality, utilization or resources determined by the authority to be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section; and (C) Data related to race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and primary language collected in a manner consistent with ORS 413.161. (3) Any third party administrator that is not required to obtain a license under ORS 744.702 and that is legally responsible for payment of a claim for a health care item or service provided to an Oregon resident may report to the authority the health care data described in subsection (2) of this section. (4) The authority shall adopt rules establishing requirements for reporting entities to train providers on protocols for collecting race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and primary language data in a culturally competent manner. (5)(a) The authority shall use data collected under this section to provide information to consumers of health care to empower the consumers to make economically sound and medically appropriate decisions. The information must include, but not be limited to, the prices and quality of health care services. (b) The authority shall, using only data collected under this section from reporting entities described in ORS 442.372 (1) to (3), post to its website health care price information including the median prices paid by the reporting entities to hospitals and hospital outpatient clinics for, at a minimum, the 50 most common inpatient procedures and the 100 most common outpatient procedures. (c) The health care price information posted to the website must be: (A) Displayed in a consumer friendly format; (B) Easily accessible by consumers; and (C) Updated at least annually to reflect the most recent data available. (d) The authority shall apply for and receive donations, gifts and grants from any public or private source to pay the cost of posting health care price information to its website in accordance with this subsection. Moneys received shall be deposited to the Oregon Health Authority Fund. (e) The obligation of the authority to post health care price information to its website as required by this subsection is limited to the extent of any moneys specifically appropriated for that purpose or available from donations, gifts and grants from private or public sources. (6) The authority may contract with a third party to collect and process the health care data reported under this section. The contract must prohibit the collection of Social Security numbers and must prohibit the disclosure or use of the data for any purpose other than those specifically authorized by the contract. The contract must require the third party to transmit all data collected and processed under the contract to the authority. (7) The authority shall facilitate a collaboration between the Department of Human Services, the authority, the Department of Consumer and Business Services and interested stakeholders to develop a comprehensive health care information system using the data reported under this section and collected by the authority under ORS