33-20E-8. Payer health claims data base; annual updating of website.

Active

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

(a)
Subject to appropriation, the department shall provide for the maintenance of an all-payer health claims data base and maintain records of insurer payments which shall track such payments by a wide variety of healthcare services and by geographic areas of this state. Such appropriation must specifically reference the Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act. The department shall update information in the all-payer health claims data base on no less than an annual basis and shall maintain such information on the department’s website.#
(b)
In the event that the appropriation described in subsection (a) of this Code section is not made, the department shall update information from such other verifiable data as the Commissioner shall determine appropriate on no less than an annual basis and shall maintain such information on the department’s website.#

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, § 33-20E-8, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 210, § 1/HB 888.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2020, ‘‘the Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act’’ was substituted for ‘‘this Act’’ at the end of the second sentence of subsection (a).

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

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

Text read from t33-ch1-22-(v24)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V24, 2020 edition, pages 867 to 868; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4ecec175d949.

Ask about this section

The answer is drawn from this section and, when they fit, the other sections of its chapter. It quotes the text and names the section for each claim. Not legal advice.