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except privileged medical information and confidential commercial | | information, provided to the organization under this chapter as | | long as individual patients or health care practitioners are not | | directly identified. The board shall adopt rules governing public | | access in the least restrictive means possible to information that | may indirectly identify a particular patient, | practitioner or provider or payor |
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| | | Sec. 11. 22 MRSA §8707, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 653, Pt. A, | | §2 and affected by §7, is amended to read: |
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| | | 4. Confidential or privileged designation. The rules must | | determine to be confidential or privileged information all data | | designated or treated as confidential or privileged by the Maine | | Health Care Finance Commission. Information regarding discounts | | off charges, including capitation and other similar agreements, | | negotiated between a payor or purchaser and a provider of health | | care that was designated as confidential only for a limited time | | under the rules of the Maine Health Care Finance Commission is | | confidential to the organization, notwithstanding the termination | | date for that designation specified under the prior rules. The | | board may determine financial data submitted to the organization | | under section 8709 to be confidential information if the public | | disclosure of the data will directly result in the provider of | | the data being placed in a competitive economic disadvantage.__ | | This section may not be construed to relieve the provider of the | | data of the requirement to disclose such information to the | | organization in accordance with this chapter and rules adopted by | | the board. |
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| | | Sec. 12. 22 MRSA §8708, as amended by PL 1997, c. 525, §4, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | Clinical data must be filed, stored and managed as follows. |
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| | | 1. Information required. Pursuant to rules adopted by the | | board for form, medium, content and time for filing, each health | | care facility shall file with the organization the following | | information: |
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| | A. Scope of service information, including bed capacity, by | service provided, special services, ancillary services, | physician profiles in the aggregate by clinical specialties, | nursing services and such other scope of service information | as the organization determines necessary for the performance | of its duties; |
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| | | B. A completed uniform hospital discharge data set, or | | comparable information, for each patient discharged from the | facility after June 30, 1983; for each major ambulatory |
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