Virginia Health Information


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BACKGROUND

These downloadable documents describe the methods that ambulatory surgical centers, hospitals, and physicians (referred to as reporting entities) are to use to submit outpatient surgical data to satisfy Chapter 7.2 of the Code of Virginia. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is the state agency responsible for administration of the program. VDH contracts with Virginia Health Information (VHI), a nonprofit company to collect, process, verify, analyze, and disseminate this information.

Requirements for reporting certain outpatient surgical procedures came about following the reports of multidisciplinary study groups that recommended expansion of Virginia�s Patient Level Data System to include outpatient surgical data. The study groups included business, consumer, hospital, physician and state representatives nominated by their trade associations.

The actual procedures to be reported were not specified in the law. Selection of the procedures was deferred to another multidisciplinary task force that made recommendations to Virginia Health Information. The Board of Health approved the actual procedures in August 2001. The procedures will undergo periodic review.

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