SB1216 - Missouri - SB1216 - Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

SB 1216 - This act requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to implement a health care quality program for the purpose of making available a health care quality report card to allow consumers to compare and assess the quality of health care services. The program shall be implemented in two phases. The first phase includes making available cost and quality outcome data on its Internet website by December 31, 2009. The data on the website shall consist of quality and performance outcome and patient charge data currently collected by the department from hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers under federal and state law, as well as data submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services already required to be submitted under federal law. The data shall be disclosed in a manner that allows consumers to conduct an interactive search. The second phase shall be implemented by December 31, 2011, and shall consist of the department working with the recommendations from [...]

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