Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 156

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 230

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH CARE CLAIMS DATABASE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend § 10314, Title 16 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 10314. External and public reporting of claims data.

(c) The Office of Management and Budget, State Employee Benefits Committee, Division of Public Health, State Council for Persons with Disabilities, and Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance shall have access to all claims data reported by the Delaware Health Care Claims Database under this subchapter at no cost for the purposes of public health improvement research and activities. These entities are authorized to enter into appropriate agreements with the DHIN to allow the Delaware Health Care Claims Database to perform data warehousing and analytics functions that have been performed pursuant to the existing statutory authority of the Office of Management and Budget, the State Employee Benefits Committee, State Council for Persons with Disabilities, or the Department of Health and Social Services.

Approved July 23, 2019