14VAC5-405-60. Data sets.
A. The commission shall contract with Virginia Health Information or its successor to establish a data set and business process to provide health carriers, health care providers, and arbitrators with data to assist in determining commercially reasonable payments and resolving payment disputes for out-of-network medical services rendered by health care providers. This contractor will develop the data sets and business process in collaboration with health carriers and health care providers. The data set shall be reviewed by the advisory committee established pursuant to § 32.1-276.7:1 of the Code of Virginia.
B. The 2020 data set shall be based upon the most recently available full calendar year of claims data drawn from commercial health plan claims and shall not include claims paid under Medicare or Medicaid or other claims paid on other than a fee-for-service basis. The 2020 data set shall be adjusted annually for inflation by applying the Consumer Price Index-Medical Component as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor to the previous year's data set.
C. The commission may implement other adjustments to the data sets in accordance with § 38.2-3445.03 of the Code of Virginia.
Statutory Authority
§§ 12.1-13 and 38.2-223 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 37, Issue 7, eff. January 1, 2021.