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153.05
(11) In order to elicit public comment concerning the reports required
10under ss. 153.10 to 153.35, the
office department shall, following the release of the
11reports and by a date that is determined by the board
, provide notice of and hold
12public hearings.
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153.05
(12) The
office department shall, to the extent possible and upon
15request, assist members of the public in interpreting data in health care information
16disseminated by the
office department.
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153.07
(1) The board shall advise the director of the
office department with
19regard to the collection, analysis and dissemination of health care information
20required by this chapter.
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153.07
(2) The board, upon advice of the
office department, shall first
23determine whether to contract for services pursuant to s. 153.05 (6) or (6m). If the
24board determines to contract for such services, it shall approve specifications for a
25contract including the length of the contract and the standards for determining
1potential contractor conflicts with the purposes of the
office department as specified
2under s. 153.05 (1). In the alternative, the board may direct the
office to have the
3department of health and family services department to provide the services under
4s. 153.05 (6) or (6m). The board may subsequently determine to contract for these
5services in subsequent years. If the board decides to bid the contract for services
6under s. 153.05 (6) or (6m), the department
of health and family services may offer
7a bid as would any other potential contractor. The board shall evaluate a contractor's
8performance 6 months prior to the close of each existing contract.
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153.07
(3) The board shall approve all rules which are proposed by the
11commissioner department for promulgation to implement this chapter.
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153.08
(2) (b) No sooner than 15 days after a notice is published under par. (a)
14and no later than 15 days before the date of the proposed rate change, conducts a
15public hearing on the proposed rate change. The hearing shall be on the expected
16impact of the proposed rate change on health care costs, the expected improvement,
17if any, in the local health care delivery system, and any other issue related to the
18proposed rate change. Management staff, if any, of the hospital proposing the rate
19change and, if possible, at least 3 members of the governing board of any
20not-for-profit hospital proposing the rate change shall attend the public hearing to
21review public testimony. The hospital shall record accurate minutes of the meeting
22and shall provide copies of the minutes and any written testimony presented at the
23hearing to the
office of health care information in the office of the commissioner of
24insurance department within 10 days after the date of the public hearing.
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1153.10
(1) Beginning in 1990 and quarterly thereafter, the
office department 2shall prepare and submit to the governor and the chief clerk of each house of the
3legislature for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2), in a manner that
4permits comparisons among hospitals, a report setting forth all of the following for
5every hospital for the preceding quarter:
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(a) The charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups
7selected by the
office department.
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(b) The utilization and charge information for ambulatory surgery and other
9outpatient health care services selected by the
office
department.
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11153.15 Small area analysis reports. Beginning in 1990 and annually
12thereafter, the
office department shall prepare and submit to the governor and the
13chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the legislature under
14s. 13.172 (2) reports identifying health care services or procedures provided by one
15or more hospitals in specific areas of the state for which the rate of utilization of the
16service or procedure is significantly different than the state or area average.
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18153.20 Uncompensated health care services report. (1) Beginning in
191990 and annually thereafter, the
office department shall prepare and submit to the
20governor and to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the
21legislature under s. 13.172 (2) a report setting forth the number of patients to whom
22uncompensated health care services were provided by each hospital and the total
23charges for the uncompensated health care services provided to the patients for the
24preceding year, together with the number of patients and the total charges that were
25projected by the hospital for that year in the plan filed under sub. (2).
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1(2) Beginning in 1990 and annually thereafter, every hospital shall file with
2the
office department a plan setting forth the projected number of patients to whom
3uncompensated health care services will be provided by the hospital and the
4projected total charges for the uncompensated health care services to be provided to
5the patients for the ensuing year.
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7153.25 Mortality and morbidity report. Beginning in 1990 and annually
8thereafter, the
office department shall prepare and submit to the governor and to the
9chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the legislature under
10s. 13.172 (2) reports setting forth mortality and morbidity rates for every hospital.
11Before the release of a report under this section, the
office department shall provide
12the physicians, hospitals or other health care providers identified in the report with
13the opportunity to review and comment under s. 153.40 (6).
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15153.30 Health care insurance report. Beginning in 1990 and annually
16thereafter, the
office department and the office of the commissioner of insurance may
17jointly prepare and submit to the governor, and to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2),
18a report specifying, to the extent possible, on a regional basis, the number, nature of
19coverage and costs of health care coverage plans covering residents of this state
20during the preceding year.
SB77-SSA1,1368,2
22153.35 (title)
Report by the office department. (intro.) The
office 23department shall annually, by October 1, under rules promulgated by the
24commissioner department, submit under s. 13.172 (3) a report to the legislature for
1distribution to standing committees with jurisdiction over health matters, that shall
2include all of the following:
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153.35
(1) The range, median and mean of charges and increases or decreases
5in specific charges by hospitals for up to 100 charge elements, as selected by the
office 6department, as reported to the
office
department under s. 153.05 (1) (c) 1.
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153.40
(1) Prior to data submission, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers or
9other health care providers shall review discharge data for accuracy and shall obtain
10verification by the physician of the principal and secondary diagnoses and primary
11and secondary procedures. The verification shall occur within the time specified by
12rules promulgated by the
commissioner department for data submission to the
office 13department. If the verification is not made on a timely basis, the hospital or other
14health care provider shall submit the data noting the lack of verification.
SB77-SSA1,1368,2316
153.40
(2) The
office department shall be responsible for assuring that
17appropriate editing is conducted for all submitted data to identify systematic errors,
18missing data, values beyond an allowed range, illegal codes within a range, illogical
19sequence of dates, diagnoses and procedures inconsistent with age and sex, other
20data failing internal consistency checks and other patterns inconsistent with what
21would be expected. The
office department shall notify hospitals, ambulatory surgery
22centers or, beginning April 1, 1992, other health care providers of missing or incorrect
23information under this subsection.
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1153.40
(3) Hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers or, beginning April 1, 1992,
2other health care providers shall be responsible for resolving the errors found by the
3editing under sub. (2) and shall resubmit corrected data within 10 working days after
4receiving written notification from the
office department of the errors.
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153.40
(4) The
office department shall send edited and corrected data to
7hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers or, beginning April 1, 1992, other health care
8providers for a 10-working-day review period before the data are released.
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153.40
(5) The
office department may, by rules promulgated by the
11commissioner department, require that other forms of data verification, including
12reabstracting studies and comparisons with information collected from other data
13systems, be conducted prior to the release of physician-specific data.
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153.40
(6) At least 30 calendar days prior to the release of a report under s.
16153.25, the
office department shall notify a physician, hospital or other health care
17provider identified in the report of the
office's
department's intent to release the
18report. The notification shall include a copy of the draft report and a statement that
19those identified may submit comments on the report to the
office department. If the
20office department receives comments prior to the release of the report, the
office 21department shall append the comments to the report. If the
office department 22receives comments after the report is released, the
office department shall make the
23comments available to anyone requesting the comments.
SB77-SSA1, s. 3074
24Section
3074. 153.45 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB77-SSA1,1370,2
1153.45
(1) (intro.) After completion of data verification and review procedures
2under s. 153.40, the
office department shall release data in the following forms:
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153.45
(1) (b) Public use tapes which do not permit the identification of specific
5patients, physicians, employers or other health care providers, as defined by rules
6promulgated by the
commissioner department. The identification of these groups
7shall be protected by all necessary means, including the deletion of patient
8identifiers and the use of calculated variables and aggregated variables.
SB77-SSA1,1370,1210
153.45
(2) The
office department shall provide to other entities the data
11necessary to fulfill their statutory mandates for epidemiological purposes or to
12minimize the duplicate collection of similar data elements.
SB77-SSA1,1370,1614
153.45
(3) The
office department shall release physician-specific and
15employer-specific data, except in public use tapes as specified under sub. (1) (b), in
16a manner that is specified in rules promulgated by the
commissioner department.
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18153.50 Protection of patient confidentiality. Patient-identifiable data
19obtained under this chapter and contained in the discharge data base of the
office 20department is not subject to inspection, copying or receipt under s. 19.35 (1) and may
21not be released by the
office department, except to the patient or to a person granted
22permission for release by the patient and except that a hospital, a physician
, or the
23agent of a hospital or physician
or the commissioner may have access to
24patient-identifiable data to ensure the accuracy of the information in the discharge
25data base.
The department of health and family services may have access to the
1discharge data base for the purposes of completing epidemiological reports and
2eliminating the need to maintain a data base that duplicates that of the office, if the
3department of health and family services does not release or otherwise provide
4access to the patient-identifiable data.
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6153.60 (title)
Assessments to fund operations of office department and
7board.
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153.60
(1) The
office department shall, by the first October 1 after the
10commencement of each fiscal year, estimate the total amount of expenditures
under
11this chapter for the
office department and the board for that fiscal year. The
office 12department shall assess the estimated total amount for that fiscal year less the
13estimated total amount to be received under s.
20.145 (8) (hi), (hj), (kx) and (mr) 1420.435 (1) (hi) during the fiscal year and the unencumbered
balances balance of the
15amounts amount received under s.
20.145 (8) (hi), (hj) and (mr) 20.435 (1) (hi) from
16the prior fiscal year, to hospitals in proportion to each hospital's respective gross
17private-pay patient revenues during the hospital's most recently concluded entire
18fiscal year. Each hospital shall pay the assessment on or before December 1. All
19payments of assessments shall be deposited in the appropriation under s.
20.145 (8) 2020.435 (1) (hg).
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153.60
(2) The
office department may assess ambulatory surgery centers under
23this section, using as the basis for individual ambulatory surgery center assessments
24the methods and criteria promulgated by rule by the
commissioner department 25under s. 153.75 (1) (k).
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2153.65 Provision of special information; user fees. The
office department 3may provide, upon request from a person, a data compilation or a special report based
4on the information collected by the
office department under s. 153.05 (1), (3), (4) (b),
5(5), (7) or (8) or 153.08. The
office department shall establish user fees for the
6provision of these compilations or reports, payable by the requester, which shall be
7sufficient to fund the actual necessary and direct cost of the compilation or report.
8All moneys collected under this section shall be credited to the appropriation under
9s.
20.145 (8) 20.435 (1) (hi).
SB77-SSA1, s. 3083
10Section
3083. 153.75 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB77-SSA1,1372,1211
153.75
(1) (intro.) Following approval by the board, the
commissioner 12department shall promulgate the following rules:
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153.75
(1) (b) Establishing procedures under which hospitals and health care
15providers are permitted to review and verify patient-related information prior to its
16submission to the
office department.
SB77-SSA1, s. 3085
17Section
3085. 153.75 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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153.75
(2) (intro.) With the approval of the board, the
commissioner 19department may promulgate all of the following rules:
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153.75
(2) (c) Providing for the efficient collection, analysis and dissemination
22of health care information which the
office department may require under this
23chapter.
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1153.90
(3) The
commissioner
department may directly assess forfeitures under
2sub. (2). If the
commissioner department determines that a forfeiture should be
3assessed for a particular violation or for failure to correct the violation, the
4commissioner department shall send a notice of assessment to the alleged violator.
5The notice shall specify the alleged violation of the statute or rule and the amount
6of the forfeiture assessed and shall inform the alleged violator of the right to contest
7the assessment under s. 227.44.
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165.25
(3r) Avoid conflict of interest. Require that attorneys in different
10organizational subunits in the department prosecute violations of chs.
561 562 to 569
11or Indian gaming compacts entered into under s. 14.035 and defend any department,
12agency, official, employe or agent under subs. (1), (4) (a) and (6).
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165.30
(1m) Generally. The department of justice shall represent the
15interests of and furnish legal services to departments relating to the collection of
16obligations.
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165.70
(3m) The attorney general shall establish a separate bureau in the
19division of criminal investigation in which all of the department's gaming law
20enforcement responsibilities under chs.
561 562 to 569 and 945 shall be performed.
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165.72
(7) Publicity. The department shall cooperate with the department of
23education public instruction in publicizing, in public schools, the use of the toll-free
24telephone number under sub. (2).
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1165.755 Crime laboratories
and drug law enforcement assessment. (1) 2(a) Except as provided in par. (b), beginning on October 1, 1997, a court shall impose
3a crime laboratories and drug law enforcement assessment of $4 if the court imposes
4a sentence, places a person on probation or imposes a forfeiture for a violation of state
5law or for a violation of a municipal or county ordinance.
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(b) A court may not impose the crime laboratories and drug law enforcement
7assessment under par. (a) for a violation of s. 101.123 (2) (a), (am) 1. or (bm) or (5) (b)
8or for a violation of a state law or municipal or county ordinance involving a
9nonmoving traffic violation or a safety belt use violation under s. 347.48 (2m).
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10(2) If the court under sub. (1) (a) imposes a sentence or forfeiture for multiple
11offenses or places a person on probation for multiple offenses, a separate crime
12laboratories and drug law enforcement assessment shall be imposed for each
13separate offense.
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14(3) Except as provided in sub. (4), after the court determines the amount due
15under sub. (1) (a), the clerk of the court shall collect and transmit the amount to the
16county treasurer under s. 59.40 (2) (m). The county treasurer shall then make
17payment to the state treasurer under s. 59.25 (3) (f) 2.
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18(4) If a municipal court imposes a forfeiture, after determining the amount due
19under sub. (1) (a) the court shall collect and transmit such amount to the treasurer
20of the county, city, town or village, and that treasurer shall make payment to the state
21treasurer as provided in s. 66.12 (1) (b).
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22(5) If any deposit of bail is made for a noncriminal offense to which sub. (1) (a)
23applies, the person making the deposit shall also deposit a sufficient amount to
24include the assessment prescribed in sub. (1) (a) for forfeited bail. If bail is forfeited,
25the amount of the assessment under sub. (1) (a) shall be transmitted monthly to the
1state treasurer under this section. If bail is returned, the assessment shall also be
2returned.
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3(6) If an inmate in a state prison or a person sentenced to a state prison has
4not paid the crime laboratories and drug law enforcement assessment under sub. (1)
5(a), the department shall assess and collect the amount owed from the inmate's
6wages or other moneys. Any amount collected shall be transmitted to the state
7treasurer.
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8(7) All moneys collected from crime laboratories and drug law enforcement
9assessments under this section shall be deposited by the state treasurer and used as
10specified in s. 20.455 (2) (kd) and (Lm).
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(2) (a) 5. Provide assistance to the Wisconsin wing of the civil air patrol
13from the appropriation under s. 20.465 (3)
(q) (f) for the purpose of enabling the patrol
14to perform its assigned missions and duties as prescribed by U.S. air force
15regulations. Expenses eligible for assistance are aircraft acquisition and
16maintenance, communications equipment acquisition and maintenance and office
17staffing and operational expenses. The civil air patrol shall submit vouchers for
18expenses eligible for assistance to the division.