| (a) Public Use Data File Fees. Fees shall be charged
for hospital inpatient data, outpatient data, and hospital emergency
department data collected and created under Health and Safety Code,
Chapter 108 and §421.8 of this title (relating to Hospital Discharge
Data Creation), §421.67 of this title (relating to Event Files--Records,
Data Fields and Codes) and §421.77 of this title (relating to
Event Files--Records, Data Fields and Codes), respectively:
(1) State Agencies (including State owned universities)
- $0.00.
(2) Texas City/County/Local Government Health Departments
- $0.00.
(3) Texas Reporting Hospitals, Texas In-State Media,
and Out of State Health Departments:
(A) Three most recent calendar years of data - $3,000.00;
(B) Calendar quarters for the three most recent calendar
years - $875.00; or
(C) Calendar quarters that are four or more years than
the current date - $312.50.
(4) Texas private universities/colleges, out of state
universities, out of state media, out of state agencies, out of state
hospitals and all other businesses or consumers, including hospital
or ambulatory surgery center affiliates, organizations, institutions
and corporate offices:
(A) Three most recent calendar years of data - $6,000.00;
(B) Calendar quarters for the three most recent calendar
years - $1,750.00; or
(C) Calendar quarters that are four or more years than
the current date - $625.00.
(5) Multiple site location organizations:
(A) Two to four license locations:
(i) Three most recent calendar years of data - $9,000.00;
(ii) Calendar quarters for the three most recent calendar
years - $2,750.00; or
(iii) Calendar quarters that are four or more years
than the current date - $982.00.
(B) Five to nine license locations:
(i) Three most recent calendar years of data - $12,000.00;
(ii) Calendar quarters for the three most recent calendar
years - $4,000.00; or
(iii) Calendar quarters that are four or more years
than the current date - $1429.00.
(C) Ten or more license locations:
(i) Three most recent calendar years of data - $15,000.00;
(ii) Calendar quarters for the three most recent calendar
years - $5,250.00; or
(iii) Calendar quarters that are four or more years
than the current date - $1875.00.
(b) Research Data File Fees. Research data file requests
require Institutional Review Board approval in §421.46 of this
title (relating to Institutional Review Board).
(1) State Agencies:
(A) Health and Human Services Agencies - $0.00.
(B) Texas State Agencies (other than Health and Human
Services Agencies) and Texas State universities - Refer to paragraph
(3) of this subsection.
(2) All other requestors - Refer to paragraph (3) of
this subsection.
(3) Research Data File Fee Structure - All Institutional
Review Board approved Research Data Files are custom built and may
incur one or more of the following charges dependent on the approved
request.
(A) Base fee - Approved Institutional Review Board
research data file requests that require no additional work to prepare
the data (For example, filtering or linking) the fee shall be $30
per data element per calendar quarter;
(B) Fee for identifying and extracting Institutional
Review Board approved data according to the specific criteria noted
on the Institutional Review Board documentation and in consultation
with the requestor. The data shall be extracted from the complete
dataset of requested data noted in the Institutional Review Board
documentation. The fee will be dependent on the number of hours of
labor determined by DSHS program staff performing the service to prepare,
process, and verify the Institutional Review Board approved data for
the requestor, multiplied by the hourly midpoint range rate of the
Salary Group for Class Title "Research Specialist IV" determined by
the State Auditor's Office. This fee shall be added to the fee noted
in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph and if applicable, subparagraph
(C) of this paragraph;
(C) Fee for linking of approved research data file
requests with other datasets. The fee will be dependent on the number
of hours of labor determined by DSHS staff performing the service
to prepare, process, and verify the Institutional Review Board approved
data for the requestor, multiplied by the hourly midpoint range rate
of the Salary Group for Class Title "Research Specialist IV" determined
by the State Auditor's Office; or
(D) Fee for additional processing and reviews for requests
for data which are not currently available, but DSHS is anticipated
to receive and process in the future. The fee will be dependent on
the number of hours of labor determined by DSHS staff performing the
service to prepare, process, and verify the Institutional Review Board
approved data for the requestor, multiplied by the hourly midpoint
range rate of the Salary Group for Class Title "Research Specialist
IV" determined by the State Auditor's Office.
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