Health & Saf. Code, § 128737 · Chapter 1. Health Facility Data
Health & Saf. Code, § 128737
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Each general acute care hospital and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic shall file an Ambulatory Surgery Data Record for each patient encounter during which at least one ambulatory surgery procedure is performed. The Ambulatory Surgery Data Record shall include all of the following:
(1) Date of birth.
(2) Sex.
(3) Race.
(4) Ethnicity.
(5) Preferred language spoken.
(6) ZIP Code.
(7) Patient social security number, if it is contained in the patient’s medical record.
(8) Service date.
(9) Principal diagnosis.
(10) Other diagnoses.
(11) Principal procedure.
(12) Other procedures.
(13) External causes of morbidity.
(14) Disposition of patient.
(15) Expected source of payment.
(16) Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.
(b) It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patient’s rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the department believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code).
(c) No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).
(d) Data reporting requirements established by the department shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.
(e) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2004.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 28, Sec. 111. (SB 1380) Effective January 1, 2023.
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- Health & Saf. Code, § 127280Printed as Section 128737
- Health & Saf. Code, § 128730Printed as Sections 128736 and 128737
- Health & Saf. Code, § 128738Printed as Section 128737
- Health & Saf. Code, § 128755Printed as Section 128737
- Health & Saf. Code, § 128760Printed as Section 128737
- Health & Saf. Code, § 128766Printed as Sections 128736 and 128737
- Health & Saf. Code, § 128782Printed as Section 128737 | Sections 128735, 128736, and 128737
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