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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 53. OFFICE OF HEALTH STRATEGY AND COORDINATION · Article 3. GEORGIA ALL-PAYER CLAIMS DATABASE

31-53-44. Objectives and use of GAPCD.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. The objectives of the GAPCD shall be to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care and to promote and improve public health through the understanding of health care expenditure patterns and operation and performance of the health care system. Specific uses of the GAPCD include, but are not limited to:

  2. (1)

    Establishing baseline health care cost information;#

  3. (2)

    Monitoring and analyzing health care costs;#

  4. (3)

    Assessing population health;#

  5. (4)

    Measuring utilization of health care services;#

  6. (5)

    Identifying health disparities;#

  7. (6)

    Informing consumers of cost and quality of health care;#

  8. (7)

    Supporting the planning and evaluation of health care operations and care;#

  9. (8)

    Improving coordination of care;#

  10. (9)

    Enabling oversight of health insurance premium medical loss ratios; and#

  11. (10)

    Conducting waste, fraud, and abuse studies.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 31-53-44, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 743, § 1/SB 482.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 1111; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.