{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-216.2929","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 216.2929","heading":"Data on health -care services charges and quality and outcome measures","body":"to be publicly available on cabinet's website -- Reports required.\n(1) (a) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall make available on its\nwebsite information o n charges for health -care services at least annually in\nunderstandable language with sufficient explanation to allow consumers to\ndraw meaningful comparisons between every hospital and ambulatory facility,\ndifferentiated by payor if relevant, and for other  provider groups as relevant\ndata becomes available.\n(b) Any charge information compiled and reported by the cabinet shall include\nthe median charge and other percentiles to describe the typical charges for all\nof the patients treated by a provider and the  total number of patients\nrepresented by all charges, and shall be risk-adjusted.\n(c) The report shall clearly identify the sources of data used in the report and\nexplain limitations of the data and why differences between provider charges\nmay be misleading. Every provider that is specifically identified in any report\nshall be given thirty (30) days to verify the accuracy of its data prior to public\nrelease and shall be afforded the opportunity to submit comments on its data\nthat shall be included on the we bsite and as part of any printed report of the\ndata.\n(d) The cabinet shall only provide linkages to organizations that publicly report\ncomparative-charge data for Kentucky providers using data for all patients\ntreated regardless of payor source, which may be adjusted for outliers, is risk -\nadjusted, and meets the requirements of paragraph (c) of this subsection.\n(2) (a) The cabinet shall make information available on its website at least annually\ndescribing quality and outcome measures in understandable lang uage with\nsufficient explanations to allow consumers to draw meaningful comparisons\nbetween every hospital and ambulatory facility in the Commonwealth and\nother provider groups as relevant data becomes available.\n(b) 1. The cabinet shall utilize only natio nal quality indicators that have been\nendorsed and adopted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and\nQuality, the National Quality Forum, or the Centers for Medicare and\nMedicaid Services; or\n2. The cabinet shall provide linkages only to the following orga nizations\nthat publicly report quality and outcome measures on Kentucky\nproviders:\na. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;\nb. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality;\nc. The Joint Commission; and\nd. Other organizations that publicly report relevant outcome data for\nKentucky providers.\n(c) The cabinet shall utilize or refer the general public to only those nationally\nendorsed quality indicators that are based upon current scientific evidence or\nrelevant national professional consensus and have definitions and calculation\nmethods openly available to the general public at no charge.\n(3) Any report the cabinet disseminates or refers the public to shall:\n(a) Not include data for a provider whose caseload of  patients is insufficient to\nmake the data a reliable indicator of the provider's performance;\n(b) Meet the requirements of subsection (1)(c) of this section;\n(c) Clearly identify the sources of data used in the report and explain the\nanalytical methods used in preparing the data included in the report; and\n(d) Explain any limitations of the data and how the data should be used by\nconsumers.\n(4) The cabinet shall report at least biennially, no later than October 1 of each odd -\nnumbered year, on the special h ealth needs of the minority population in the\nCommonwealth as compared to the population in the Commonwealth as compared\nto the population at large. The report shall contain an overview of the health status\nof minority Kentuckians, shall identify the disea ses and conditions experienced at\ndisproportionate mortality and morbidity rates within the minority population, and\nshall make recommendations to meet the identified health needs of the minority\npopulation.\n(5) Beginning December 1, 2024, and at least ann ually thereafter, the Cabinet for\nHealth and Family Services shall publish a report on its website for the most recent\nfive (5) years of available data on the number and types of delivery procedures for\npregnancy by hospital, including but not limited to the following procedures:\n(a) Augmentation of labor;\n(b) Cesarean section;\n(c) Episiotomy;\n(d) Induction of labor;\n(e) Primary cesarean section;\n(f) Nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex (NTSV) cesarean section;\n(g) Use of forceps;\n(h) Use of vacuum;\n(i) Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC); and\n(j) Vaginal delivery.\nThe cabinet shall use health data collected pursuant to KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929\nto obtain the required information, and may use additional sources including data\nderived from birth certificates if the required information is not available from data\ncollected pursuant to KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929.\n(6) The reports required under subsections (4) and (5) of this section shall be submitted\nto the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Int erim Joint\nCommittees on Appropriations and Revenue, Families and Children, and Health\nServices, and to the Governor.","path":["KRS Chapter 216"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=55580","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:52:20Z","sha256":"0d49642a60d290170c06a77050643ff2210c7b33947816b2ca2abf546fe7d9c6","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-216.2927","next":"us-ky/krs-216.2940"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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