H97 - 2015 Appropriations Act, Sec. 12A.6(b): Status Report on Implementation of ICD-10 (SL 2015-241)

Overview: Section 12A.6(b) of S.L. 2015-241 requires the Department of Health and Human Services (Department) to submit a monthly report beginning on November 15, 2015, to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and the Fiscal Research Division on the status of the implementation of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10). The Department must continue to submit the report by the 15th of each month until three consecutive months have passed in which the Department did not issue any hardship advances and until the new Department of Information Technology can assume this function. Thereafter, the Department of Information Technology must submit this report upon the request of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services.

This section became effective July 1, 2015.