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title: O.C.G.A. § 33-20E-8. Payer health claims data base; annual updating of website.
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# O.C.G.A. § 33-20E-8. Payer health claims data base; annual updating of website.

(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.

## 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).