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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§280j–2 Public Reporting of Performance Information

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter II— GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part S— Health Care Quality Programs › Subpart i— national strategy for quality improvement in health care › § 280j–2

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must put performance and quality data on standardized public websites. The websites must be made for different users (like hospitals, doctors, patients, researchers, policymakers, and States). When available, the sites must show information by clinical condition and, where useful, give provider-specific and detailed breakdowns for patients with different conditions. The Secretary must work with the contractor under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act and others to decide what information and formats are most helpful. That contractor must gather multi-stakeholder groups to review website designs and send their views to the Secretary. The Secretary should coordinate these websites with other public quality reports, including those under title XVIII of the Social Security Act. Money is authorized as needed for fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

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Title 42, §280j–2

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary shall make available to the public, through standardized Internet websites, performance information summarizing data on quality measures. Such information shall be tailored to respond to the differing needs of hospitals and other institutional health care providers, physicians and other clinicians, patients, consumers, researchers, policymakers, States, and other stakeholders, as the Secretary may specify.
(b)The performance information made publicly available on an Internet website, as described in subsection (a), shall include information regarding clinical conditions to the extent such information is available, and the information shall, where appropriate, be provider-specific and sufficiently disaggregated and specific to meet the needs of patients with different clinical conditions.
(c)(1)In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall consult with the entity with a contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)], and other entities, as appropriate, to determine the type of information that is useful to stakeholders and the format that best facilitates use of the reports and of performance reporting Internet websites.
(2)The entity with a contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)] shall convene multi-stakeholder groups, as described in such section, to review the design and format of each Internet website made available under subsection (a) and shall transmit to the Secretary the views of such multi-stakeholder groups with respect to each such design and format.
(d)Where appropriate, the Secretary shall coordinate the manner in which data are presented through Internet websites described in subsection (a) and for public reporting of other quality measures by the Secretary, including such quality measures under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.].
(e)To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

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The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Title XVIII of the Act is classified generally to subchapter XVIII (§ 1395 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of this title and Tables.

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42 U.S.C. § 280j–2

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60