In April 1983 and June 1985, the State Hospital Review and Planning Council adopted additional regulations regarding the reporting of ambulatory surgery data to the New York State Department of Health. The regulations require that inpatient data be submitted by all Article 28 facilities certified for inpatient and that outpatient data be submitted by all hospital-based ambulatory surgery services and all other facilities providing ambulatory surgery services.
All data has to be submitted according to a designated format and schedule.
Task Force to develop data set specifications that would blend the UB-92 nationwide inpatient and outpatient billing requirements with the unique billing and discharge data reporting requirements of New York State. The specifications are intended to meet the myriad of requests from health care researchers for both billing and medical records data. In April 1993, this task force released a new UDS specification which includes reporting codes for use with the UB-92 paper form and a new electronic format. The resulting system streamlined multiple data submission formats into a single format, removing redundant reporting requirements for hospitals and other health care facilities. In an effort to reflect what is needed by the users of this data, modifications of the required data elements and their formats occur periodically.