A. Every hospital in the Commonwealth that includes an emergency department shall report quarterly to the Department, for the preceding quarter, (i) the total number of visits to the hospital’s emergency department, by location, and (ii) the total number of visits to the hospital’s emergency department by emergency department evaluation and management (E/M) Physicians’ Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 32.1-137.09

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the State Department of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
  • Hospital: means any facility licensed pursuant to this article in which the primary function is the provision of diagnosis, of treatment, and of medical and nursing services, surgical or nonsurgical, for two or more nonrelated individuals, including hospitals known by varying nomenclature or designation such as children's hospitals, sanatoriums, sanitariums and general, acute, rehabilitation, chronic disease, short-term, long-term, outpatient surgical, and inpatient or outpatient maternity hospitals. See Virginia Code 32.1-123
  • Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
  • Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223

B. The Department shall annually publish a report setting forth the average number of hospital emergency department visits by location and by emergency department E/M CPT code statewide and by region for each month.

C. The Department may enter into a contract or agreement with the nonprofit organization with which the Department has entered into a contract or agreement pursuant to § 32.1-276.4 for the compilation, storage, analysis, and evaluation of data required to be submitted pursuant to this section.

2022, c. 342.

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