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7 LONG TITLE
8 General Description:
9 This bill allows the Department of Health to share certain information with the
10 Department of Public Safety.
11 Highlighted Provisions:
12 This bill:
13 ▸ allows the Department of Health to share certain information with the Department
14 of Public Safety.
15 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
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17 Other Special Clauses:
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19 Utah Code Sections Affected:
20 AMENDS:
21 26-8a-203, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2017, Chapter 419
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23 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
24 Section 1. Section 26-8a-203 is amended to read:
25 26-8a-203. Data collection.
26 (1) The committee shall specify the information that shall be collected for the
27 emergency medical services data system established pursuant to Subsection (2).
28 (2) (a) The department shall establish an emergency medical services data system,
29 which shall provide for the collection of information, as defined by the committee, relating to
30 the treatment and care of patients who use or have used the emergency medical services
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33 Authority created in Chapter 33a, Utah Health Data Authority Act, to create a report of data
34 collected by the Health Data Committee under Section 26-33a-106.1 regarding:
35 (i) appropriate analytical methods;
36 (ii) the total amount of air ambulance flight charges in the state for a one-year period;
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38 (iii) of the total number of flights in a one-year period under Subsection (2)(b)[
39 (A) the number of flights for which a patient had no personal responsibility for paying
40 part of the flight charges;
41 (B) the number of flights for which a patient had personal responsibility to pay all or
42 part of the flight charges;
43 (C) the range of flight charges for which patients had personal responsibility under
44 Subsection (2)(b)(iii)(B), including the median amount for paid patient personal responsibility;
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46 (D) the name of any air ambulance provider that received a median paid amount for
47 patient responsibility in excess of the median amount for all paid patient personal responsibility
48 during the reporting year.
49 (c) The department may share, with the Department of Public Safety, information from
50 the emergency medical services data system that:
51 (i) relates to traffic incidents;
52 (ii) is for the improvement of traffic safety;
53 (iii) may not be used for the prosecution of criminal matters; and
54 (iv) may not include any personally identifiable information.
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57 Subsection (2)(b) public and send the information in Subsection (2)(b) to:
58 (i) the Health and Human Services Interim Committee; and
59 (ii) public safety dispatchers and first responders in the state.
60 (b) Before making the information in Subsection (2)(b) public, the committee shall
61 provide the air ambulance providers named in the report with the opportunity to respond to the
62 accuracy of the information in the report under Section 26-33a-107.
63 (4) Persons providing emergency medical services:
64 (a) shall provide information to the department for the emergency medical services
65 data system established pursuant to Subsection (2)(a);
66 (b) are not required to provide information to the department under Subsection (2)(b);
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68 (c) may provide information to the department under Subsection (2)(b) or (3)(b).