Sec. 536.151. COLLECTION AND REPORTING OF CERTAIN INFORMATION. (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules for identifying:

(1) potentially preventable admissions and readmissions of child health plan program enrollees and Medicaid recipients, including preventable admissions to long-term care facilities;

(2) potentially preventable ancillary services provided to or ordered for child health plan program enrollees and Medicaid recipients;

(3) potentially preventable emergency room visits by child health plan program enrollees and Medicaid recipients; and

(4) potentially preventable complications experienced by child health plan program enrollees and Medicaid recipients.

(a-1) The commission shall collect data from hospitals on present-on-admission indicators for purposes of this section.

(b) The commission shall establish a program to provide a confidential report to each hospital in this state that participates in the child health plan program or Medicaid regarding the hospital's performance with respect to each potentially preventable event described under Subsection (a). To the extent possible, a report provided under this section should include all potentially preventable events across all child health plan program and Medicaid payment systems. A hospital shall distribute the information contained in the report to physicians and other health care providers providing services at the hospital.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a report provided to a hospital under this section is confidential and is not subject to Chapter 552.

(d) The commission may release the information in the report described by Subsection (b):

(1) not earlier than one year after the date the report is submitted to the hospital; and

(2) only after deleting any data that relates to a hospital's performance with respect to particular diagnosis-related groups or individual patients.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1120 (H.B. 1218), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.

Transferred, redesignated and amended from Government Code, Section 531.913 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 1.12(a), eff. September 28, 2011.

Amended by:

Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1310 (S.B. 7), Sec. 4.14, eff. September 1, 2013.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 2.267, eff. April 2, 2015.