Health care: health facility data.

Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, which is vested with all the duties, powers, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health relating to health planning and research development. Existing law requires the office to publish certain risk-adjusted outcome reports for specified medical, surgical, or obstetric conditions or procedures, including a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. This bill would instead require the office to publish annually, on July 1 of each year, risk-adjusted outcome reports for all coronary artery bypass graft surgeries and heart valve repair and replacement surgeries performed in the state. The bill, commencing July 1, 2015, would additionally require the office to publish risk-adjusted outcome reports for all percutaneous cardiac interventions and transcatheter valve procedures performed in the state, as specified. Existing law requires the Director of the Office of Statewide Planning and Development to appoint, as specified, a 9-member clinical panel for each risk-adjusted outcome report on a medical, surgical, or obstetric condition or procedure that includes reporting data of an individual physician, including coronary artery bypass graft surgery. For the clinical panel authorized for coronary artery bypass graft surgery, existing law requires 3 members to be appointed from a list of names submitted by the California Medical Association. This bill would increase the number of individuals appointed to a clinical panel from 9 to 12, including 3 members from a list of names submitted by the California Hospital Association. The bill would instead require the office director to appoint 3 members from a list of 3 or more names submitted by the California Society of Thoracic Surgeons and would additionally require that one appointee be an interventionalist and a member of the Society of Angiography for a clinical panel authorized for coronary artery bypass surgery and heart valve repair and replacement surgery. The bill would additionally require the office director to appoint specified individuals, including, among others, 3 members from a list of names submitted by the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, to a clinical panel authorized for percutaneous cardiac interventions and transcatheter valve procedures. The bill would require all heart valve repair and replacement procedures, whether performed using surgical procedures or using transcatheter interventions, to be reviewed by a joint subpanel of the coronary artery bypass graft surgery and heart valve repair and replacement surgery, and percutaneous cardiac intervention clinical panels, as provided.