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§ 9409a. Health care insurance reimbursement survey
In order to understand the impact of reimbursement on access to health care, the cost shift, the workforce shortages and recruitment and retention of health care professionals, the commissioner shall annually survey health insurers to determine the reimbursement paid for the ten most common billing codes for primary care health services within the current procedural terminology category of Evaluation and Management Services and the ten most common billing codes outside the category of Evaluation and Management, excluding routine venipuncture. Each insurer shall report the average reimbursement paid for a specific service. The survey shall be managed by the department of banking, insurance, securities, and health care administration, and any public reports shall be sufficiently aggregated so that they would not enable readers to determine the amount of reimbursement paid for specific services to any particular provider or facility. No provider-specific or facility-specific reimbursement information shall be included in the public survey reports, or be available through public records requests. When published, survey data will be at least 90 days old. Only the department will have access to the underlying survey responses. The department shall provide a copy of the survey results to the house committee on health care and the senate committee on health and welfare. (Added 2007, No. 71, § 9; amended 2009, No. 42, § 31.)
