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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71744</law_id><section_number>32.1-276.2</section_number><catch_line>Health care data reporting; purpose</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-4345</reference><reference>37.2-710</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7.2">Health Care Data Reporting</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The General Assembly finds that the establishment of effective health care data analysis and reporting initiatives is essential to improving the quality and efficiency of health care, fostering competition among <span class="dictionary">health care providers</span>, and increasing <span class="dictionary">consumer</span> choice with regard to health care services in the Commonwealth, and that accurate and valuable health care data can best be identified by representatives of state government and the <span class="dictionary">consumer</span>, provider, insurance, and business communities. For this reason, the <span class="dictionary">State Board</span> of Health and the State Health <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, assisted by the State <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Health and the Bureau of Insurance, shall administer the health care data reporting initiatives established by this chapter.</p></section></text><history>1996, c. 902; 2010, c. 416; 2012, cc. 693, 709.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
