Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 421 - HEALTH CARE INFORMATION
Subchapter C - RULES RELATING TO REPORTS, DATA REQUESTS AND DATA FEES
Section 421.47 - Data Fees
Universal Citation: 25 TX Admin Code ยง 421.47
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Public Use Data File Fees. Fees shall be charged for hospital inpatient data, outpatient data, and hospital emergency department data collected and created under Health and Safety Code, Chapter 108 and § 421.8 of this title (relating to Hospital Discharge Data Creation), § 421.67 of this title (relating to Event Files--Records, Data Fields and Codes) and § 421.77 of this title (relating to Event Files--Records, Data Fields and Codes), respectively:
(1) State Agencies (including
State owned universities) - $0.00.
(2) Texas City/County/Local Government Health
Departments- $0.00.
(3) Texas
Reporting Hospitals, Texas In-State Media, and Out of State Health Departments:
(A) Three most recent calendar years of data
- $3,000.00;
(B) Calendar quarters
for the three most recent calendar years - $875.00; or
(C) Calendar quarters that are four or more
years than the current date - $312.50.
(4) Texas private universities/colleges, out
of state universities, out of state media, out of state agencies, out of state
hospitals and all other businesses or consumers, including hospital or
ambulatory surgery center affiliates, organizations, institutions and corporate
offices:
(A) Three most recent calendar years
of data - $6,000.00;
(B) Calendar
quarters for the three most recent calendar years - $1,750.00; or
(C) Calendar quarters that are four or more
years than the current date - $625.00.
(5) Multiple site location organizations:
(A) Two to four license locations:
(i) Three most recent calendar years of data
- $9,000.00;
(ii) Calendar quarters
for the three most recent calendar years - $2,750.00; or
(iii) Calendar quarters that are four or more
years than the current date - $982.00.
(B) Five to nine license locations:
(i) Three most recent calendar years of data
- $12,000.00;
(ii) Calendar
quarters for the three most recent calendar years - $4,000.00; or
(iii) Calendar quarters that are four or more
years than the current date - $1429.00.
(C) Ten or more license locations:
(i) Three most recent calendar years of data
- $15,000.00;
(ii) Calendar
quarters for the three most recent calendar years - $5,250.00; or
(iii) Calendar quarters that are four or more
years than the current date - $1875.00.
(b) Research Data File Fees. Research data file requests require Institutional Review Board approval in § 421.46 of this title (relating to Institutional Review Board).
(1) State Agencies:
(A) Health and Human Services Agencies -
$0.00.
(B) Texas State Agencies
(other than Health and Human Services Agencies) and Texas State universities -
Refer to paragraph (3) of this subsection.
(2) All other requestors - Refer to paragraph
(3) of this subsection.
(3)
Research Data File Fee Structure - All Institutional Review Board approved
Research Data Files are custom built and may incur one or more of the following
charges dependent on the approved request.
(A) Base fee - Approved Institutional Review
Board research data file requests that require no additional work to prepare
the data (For example, filtering or linking) the fee shall be $30 per data
element per calendar quarter;
(B)
Fee for identifying and extracting Institutional Review Board approved data
according to the specific criteria noted on the Institutional Review Board
documentation and in consultation with the requestor. The data shall be
extracted from the complete dataset of requested data noted in the
Institutional Review Board documentation. The fee will be dependent on the
number of hours of labor determined by DSHS program staff performing the
service to prepare, process, and verify the Institutional Review Board approved
data for the requestor, multiplied by the hourly midpoint range rate of the
Salary Group for Class Title "Research Specialist IV" determined by the State
Auditor's Office. This fee shall be added to the fee noted in subparagraph (A)
of this paragraph and if applicable, subparagraph (C) of this
paragraph;
(C) Fee for linking of
approved research data file requests with other datasets. The fee will be
dependent on the number of hours of labor determined by DSHS staff performing
the service to prepare, process, and verify the Institutional Review Board
approved data for the requestor, multiplied by the hourly midpoint range rate
of the Salary Group for Class Title "Research Specialist IV" determined by the
State Auditor's Office; or
(D) Fee
for additional processing and reviews for requests for data which are not
currently available, but DSHS is anticipated to receive and process in the
future. The fee will be dependent on the number of hours of labor determined by
DSHS staff performing the service to prepare, process, and verify the
Institutional Review Board approved data for the requestor, multiplied by the
hourly midpoint range rate of the Salary Group for Class Title "Research
Specialist IV" determined by the State Auditor's Office.
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