192.665. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

192.665. As used in this section, section 192.667, and sections197.150 to 197.165, RSMo, the following terms mean:

(1) "Charge data", information submitted by health care providers oncurrent charges for leading procedures and diagnoses;

(2) "Charges by payer", information submitted by hospitals on amountbilled to Medicare, Medicaid, other government sources and allnongovernment sources combined as one data element;

(3) "Department", the department of health and senior services;

(4) "Financial data", information submitted by hospitals drawn fromfinancial statements which includes the balance sheet, income statement,charity care and bad debt and charges by payer, prepared in accordance withgenerally accepted accounting principles;

(5) "Health care provider", hospitals as defined in section 197.020,RSMo, and ambulatory surgical centers as defined in section 197.200, RSMo;

(6) "Nosocomial infection", as defined by the national Centers forDisease Control and Prevention and applied to infections within hospitals,ambulatory surgical centers, and other facilities;

(7) "Nosocomial infection incidence rate", a risk-adjustedmeasurement of new cases of nosocomial infections by procedure or devicewithin a population over a given period of time, with such measurementsdefined by rule of the department pursuant to subsection 3 of section192.667 for use by all hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and otherfacilities in complying with the requirements of the Missouri nosocomialinfection control act of 2004;

(8) "Other facility", a type of facility determined to be a source ofinfections and designated by rule of the department pursuant to subsection11 of section 192.667;

(9) "Patient abstract data", data submitted by hospitals whichincludes but is not limited to date of birth, sex, race, zip code, countyof residence, admission date, discharge date, principal and otherdiagnoses, including external causes, principal and other procedures,procedure dates, total billed charges, disposition of the patient andexpected source of payment with sources categorized according to Medicare,Medicaid, other government, workers' compensation, all commercial payorscoded with a common code, self-pay, no charge and other.