CODE OF VIRGINIA

METHODOLOGY TO REVIEW AND MEASURE THE EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF HEALTH CARE
PROVIDERS (§ 32.1-276.7)

A. Pursuant to the contract identified in § 32.1-276.4, and consistent with
recommendations set forth in strategic plans submitted and approved pursuant to
§ 32.1-276.4, the nonprofit organization shall administer and modify, as
appropriate, the methodology to review and measure the efficiency and
productivity of health care providers. The methodology shall provide for, but
not be limited to, comparisons of a health care provider’s performance to
national and regional data, where available, and may include different
methodologies and reporting requirements for the assessment of the various types
of health care providers which report to it. Health care providers shall submit
the data necessary for implementation of the requirements of this section
pursuant to regulations of the Board. Individual health care provider filings
shall be open to public inspection once they have been received pursuant to the
methodology adopted by the Board as required by this section.

B. The data reporting requirements of this section shall not apply to those
health care providers enumerated in (iv) and (v) of the definition of health
care providers set forth in § 32.1-276.3 until a strategic plan submitted
pursuant to § 32.1-276.4 is approved requiring such reporting and any
implementing laws and regulations take effect.

HISTORY: 1996, c. 902.