SECTION 1. Section 8(a) of Chapter 12C of the General Laws is amended by adding the following sentence after the first sentence thereof:
The center shall collect from each hospital its annual bad debt in total and broken down by the payer that insured the patient, including all commercial payers, government payers, and bad debt arising from services rendered to self-pay and uninsured patients; the claim denial rate by each commercial and government payer along with the annual dollar value of denied claims by payer; and an aged accounts receivable report by payer, and the center shall publish an annual report disclosing such data by hospital.
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