Current through Register Vol. 24-24, December 15, 2024
There are two primary areas for which audits may be
performed to ensure compliance with laws and rules related to the
WA-APCD.
(1) Audits may be performed
to determine if data suppliers are in compliance with the requirements for the
submission of data to the WA-APCD including, but not limited to:
(a) Compliance with the data submission guide
including, but not limited to, accuracy of financial fields;
(b) Data integrity, as opposed to data
quality checks that the data vendor performs using thresholds and
variances;
(c) Finding data that is
missing or being withheld from submission into the WA-APCD; and
(d) Documenting the process for determining
the number of Washington covered persons for each line of business in order to
ensure that data suppliers are not artificially creating lines of business with
small numbers of covered lives in order to meet the minimum threshold for
exclusion to report.
(2)
Audits can be performed to determine whether requestors who receive data from
the WA-APCD are in compliance with the data release requirements or agreements,
whether provided datasets or licenses to the data enclave including, but not
limited to:
(a) For physical datasets,
compliance with data use agreements, confidentiality agreements, compliance
with collecting, storing, analyzing, and destroying the data; and
(b) For data enclave licenses, compliance
with data use agreements, confidentiality agreements, compliance with
analyzing, storing, destroying, and user license access to the data.
(3) For purposes of this section,
the following definitions apply:
(a) "Data
quality checks" means the extent to which data is missing or the data conforms
with the data format requirements; and
(b) "Data integrity checks" means the
completeness and validity of the submitted data, whether the submitted values
are consistent with the instructions and intent of the data submission
guide.
Statutory Authority:
RCW 43.371.070.
WSR 18-22-095, §
82-75-700,
filed 11/5/18, effective 12/6/18.
