Existing law requires certain health facilities and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinics to file, with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, specified reports containing various patient and health data information, including, among other things, the patient’s date of birth and source of admission. Existing law also provides that the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall make allowances to adopt regulations adding or deleting elements listed in the patient level data elements, as specified.

This bill would require the office to adopt a regulation adding physician identifiers to the patient level data elements.