Tennessee § 71-5-152 Procedure to obtain data sets derived from all payer claims database - Use of data - Annual report

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§ 71-5-152 — Procedure to obtain data sets derived from all payer claims database - Use of data - Annual report

Tennessee § 71-5-152

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Bluebook

Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-5-152 (2026).

Text

(a)Pursuant to § 56-2-125(d)(2)(B) , and no later than October 1, 2016, the deputy commissioner of finance and administration responsible for the TennCare program shall establish a procedure permitting the following to obtain data sets derived from the all payer claims database through the department authorized to access the database for the purposes authorized in § 56-2-125(b)(1) within available resources of the bureau of TennCare:

(1)The department of finance and administration;

(2)The department of health;

(3)The department of mental health and substance abuse services;

(4)The department of disability and aging; and (5) Other departments of this state.

(b)Any data retrieved from the database or the managing vendor may only be used for internal purposes of the department. The data

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(a) Pursuant to § 56-2-125(d)(2)(B) , and no later than October 1, 2016, the deputy commissioner of finance and administration responsible for the TennCare program shall establish a procedure permitting the following to obtain data sets derived from the all payer claims database through the department authorized to access the database for the purposes authorized in § 56-2-125(b)(1) within available resources of the bureau of TennCare: (1) The department of finance and administration; (2) The department of health; (3) The department of mental health and substance abuse services; (4) The department of disability and aging; and (5) Other departments of this state. (b) Any data retrieved from the database or the managing vendor may only be used for internal purposes of the department. The data shall be confidential and shall not be a public record for the purposes of title 10, chapter 7. If any department seeks to produce reports based upon the data as public documents, then the department shall submit a request for approval of that use of the data to the Tennessee health information committee. (c) The bureau of TennCare shall submit an annual report to the chairs of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house of representatives that shall describe the nature and purpose of any requests to utilize data from the all payer claims database submitted to the bureau or the health information committee. Any request for data from departments that cannot be provided within existing resources of the bureau shall be identified in this report. The report shall also describe the disposition made by the Tennessee health information committee of each request to utilize the data and shall detail how each member of the committee voted on each request. The bureau shall submit the report by January 15 each year.

Legislative History

Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 182, eff. 7/1/2024. Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 64, s 124, eff. 3/29/2021. Amended by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 345, s 138, eff. 5/10/2019. Added by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1079, s 4, eff. 7/1/2016.