Utah Code 26B-8-501. Definitions
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26B-8-501. Definitions.
As used in this part:
As used in this part:
(1) | “Committee” means the Health Data Committee created in Section 26B-1-413. |
(a) | describing the group characteristics of individuals or organizations; |
(b) | analyzing the noncompliance among the various characteristics of individuals or organizations; |
(c) | conducting statistical procedures or studies to improve the quality of health data; |
(d) | designing sample surveys and selecting samples of individuals or organizations; and |
(e) | preparing and publishing reports describing these matters. See Utah Code 26B-8-501 |
(2) | “Control number” means a number assigned by the committee to an individual’s health data as an identifier so that the health data can be disclosed or used in research and statistical analysis without readily identifying the individual. |
(3) | “Data supplier” means a health care facility, health care provider, self-funded employer, third-party payor, health maintenance organization, or government department which could reasonably be expected to provide health data under this part. |
(4) | “Disclosure” or “disclose” means the communication of health care data to any individual or organization outside the committee, its staff, and contracting agencies. |
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(6) | “Health care provider” means the same as that term is defined in Section 78B-3-403. |
(7) | “Health data” means information relating to the health status of individuals, health services delivered, the availability of health manpower and facilities, and the use and costs of resources and services to the consumer, except vital records as defined in Section 26B-8-101 shall be excluded. |
(8) | “Health maintenance organization” means the same as that term is defined in Section 31A-8-101. |
(9) | “Identifiable health data” means any item, collection, or grouping of health data that makes the individual supplying or described in the health data identifiable. |
(10) | “Organization” means any corporation, association, partnership, agency, department, unit, or other legally constituted institution or entity, or part thereof. |
(12) | “Self-funded employer” means an employer who provides for the payment of health care services for employees directly from the employer’s funds, thereby assuming the financial risks rather than passing them on to an outside insurer through premium payments. |
(13) | “Plan” means the plan developed and adopted by the Health Data Committee under Section 26B-1-413. |
(14) | “Third party payor” means:
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Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 306, 2023 General Session