Citations Affected: Noncode.
Synopsis: Nursing home inspections. Requires the state department of
health to report to the select joint commission on Medicaid oversight
concerning nursing home inspections. (The introduced version of this
bill was prepared by the select joint commission on Medicaid
oversight.)
Effective: July 1, 2002.
January 7, 2002, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
January 29, 2002, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health.
SECTION 1. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2002] (a) The state
department of health established by
IC 16-19-1-1
shall report
quarterly to the select joint commission on Medicaid oversight
established by
IC 2-5-26-3
concerning licensure inspections of
health facilities under IC 16-28. The report must include the
following information:
(1) The number of:
(A) inspections completed;
(B) evening and weekend inspections;
(C) citations issued per inspection, including the scope and
severity of the citations for each type of inspection;
(D) complaints received, investigated, and substantiated;
and
(E) complaints in each priority level.
(2) The response time of the state department of health in
investigating complaints.
(3) A summary of the:
(A) citations that have been appealed to:
(i) an informal dispute resolution process; or
(ii) an administrative law judge; and
(B) results of the appeals.
(4) An analysis of citations by scope and severity for each
survey region.
(5) A comparison of:
(A) the statistics in subdivisions (1) through (4); with
(B) similar statistics, where available, for:
(i) other states in Region V of the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services; and
(ii) the entire United States.
(b) This SECTION expires July 1, 2007.