LRB-4746/1
DAK:cjs:jf
1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE
March 22, 2000 - Introduced by Representative Underheim, cosponsored by
Senator Moen, by request of State Medical Society and the Department of
Health and Family Services. Referred to Committee on Health.
AB917,1,4
1An Act to repeal 153.45 (4) and 153.75 (1) (s) of the statutes;
relating to:
2eliminating the requirement that the department of health and family services
3prohibit health care information purchasers from rereleasing individual data
4elements.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, as affected by
1999 Wisconsin Act 9 (the biennial budget
act), the department of health and family services (DHFS) must collect health care
information from health care providers, including physicians, hospitals and
ambulatory surgery centers, and must analyze and disseminate that information in
the form of standard reports, public use data files and custom-designed reports.
DHFS may only release public use data files that do not permit the identification of
specific patients, employers or health care providers; this identification must be
protected by all necessary means, including by the deletion of patient identifiers and
the use of calculated and aggregated variables. In addition to these restrictions,
numerous other restrictions apply to release by DHFS of information that is
submitted by health care providers other than hospitals or ambulatory surgery
centers. Lastly, DHFS must prohibit purchasers of data from rereleasing individual
data elements of health care data files. DHFS must define "individual data
elements" by rule.
This bill eliminates the requirement that DHFS prohibit purchasers of health
care information data from rereleasing individual data elements of health care data
files.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB917, s. 1
1Section
1. 153.45 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
AB917, s. 2
2Section
2. 153.75 (1) (s) of the statutes is repealed.
