32.1-276.2 - Health care data reporting; purpose. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-276.2. Health care data reporting; purpose.

The General Assembly finds that the establishment of effective health caredata analysis and reporting initiatives is essential to improving the qualityand cost of health care, fostering competition among health care providers,and increasing consumer choice with regard to health care services in theCommonwealth, and that accurate and valuable health care data can best beidentified by representatives of state government and the consumer, hospital,nursing home, physician, insurance, and business communities. For thisreason, the State Board of Health and the State Health Commissioner, assistedby the State Department of Health, shall administer the health care datareporting initiatives established by this chapter.

(1996, c. 902; 2010, c. 416.)