Section 120.20. General provisions.

 

(1)   Standard reports. The department shall prepare the paper reports listed in this subsection and shall make these paper reports available to the public at a charge that meets the department's cost of printing, copying and mailing a report to the requester. The department shall make electronic copies of the reports available from the department's website at no charge.

(a) Hospital rate increase report.

(b) Patient-level data utilization, charge and quality report.

(c) Guide to Wisconsin hospitals report.

(d) Uncompensated health care services report.

(e) Consumer guide.

(f) Hospital quality indicators.

(2)   Prohibition on early release of reports. If the department releases drafts of any of the standard reports to health care providers for comment, health care providers or subsequent holders of the drafts may not release these reports or data elements from the reports.

(3)   Open records applicability.

(a) Except as prohibited under par. (b) , the data used to compile the reports under this chapter are not subject to inspection, copying or receipt as specified in the open records provisions under s. 19.35 (1) , Stats. When the department completes the reports and distributes them to the governor and legislature the reports shall be publicly available.

(b) Data collected under ss. DHS 120.11 to 120.16 shall not be subject to inspection, copying or receipt as specified in the open record provisions under s. 19.35 (1) , Stats.

History: Cr. Register, December, 2000, No. 540 , eff. 1-1-01; CR 03-033 : am. (3) (b) Register December 2003 No. 576 , eff. 1-1-04.

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