California § 4083 - Each psychiatric residential treatment facility shall provide the State Departmen

§ 4083. Each psychiatric residential treatment facility shall provide the State Departmen

(a) Each psychiatric residential treatment facility shall provide the State Department of Health Care Services the data as specified in subdivision (c) of Section 1250.10 of the Health and Safety Code. (b) Each psychiatric residential treatment facility shall provide the State Department of Health Care Services and the behavioral health department for the county in which the facility is physically located with data for Medi-Cal beneficiaries admitted to the facility. (c) Information released or published pursuant to this section shall not contain data that may lead to the identification of patients receiving services in a psychiatric residential treatment facility or information that would otherwise allow an individual to link the published information to a specific person. Data published by the department shall be deidentified in compliance with Section 164.514(a) and (b) of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (d) Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department may implement, interpret, or make specific this section, in whole or in part, by means of plan or county letters, information notices, plan or provider bulletins, or other similar instructions, without taking any further regulatory action.