CA Health & Safety Code § 128735 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 107 - HEALTH CARE ACCESS AND INFORMATION|PART 5 - HEALTH DATA|CHAPTER 1 - Health Facility Data|Section 128735.

128735.  An organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, shall make and file with the department, at the times as the department shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the department that are 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.(d) A statement of cashflows, including, but not limited to, ongoing and new capital expenditures and depreciation.(e) (1) 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.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management may report the information required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility.(f) Data reporting requirements established by the department 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 department 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 department pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (g).(j) A hospital shall use coding from the International Classification of Diseases in reporting diagnoses and procedures.(k) On or before July 1, 2021, the department shall promulgate regulations as necessary to implement subdivision (e). A health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management shall comply with the reporting requirements of subdivisions (b), (c), and (e) once the department finalizes related regulations.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 143, Sec. 200. (AB 133) Effective July 27, 2021.)