SB17 HFA Summers 3-4 #2

CR 3338

Delegate Summers moved to amend the bill on page 2, line 19,  by striking the period and inserting the following:

"with the following amendment:

On page 48, by inserting a new section §18 to read as follows:

'18.1 A hospital shall conduct and report the survey results in plain language of the ‘Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provider and Systems Survey (HCAHPS)’ and ‘Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR).  A hospital shall place a menu item, entitled, ‘Quality Information’ in the ‘Footer’ of all patient-facing pages of its website.  The link shall directly connect the user to another page on the hospital's website which shall provide the public results of all CMS Hospital Compare reporting measures: Provided, That results shall include ‘Preferred Direction of Results’; most current quarterly results submitted to CMS expressed as a numerator/denominator of incidents/total procedures; last published results with date; ‘State Average’; and ‘National Average’.  A hospital not required by CMS to conduct such surveys is exempt from this provision.'

And,

Renumbering the remaining sections accordingly.

Adopted

Rejected