124 STAT. 387 PUBLIC LAW 111–148—MAR. 23, 2010 ‘‘(B) take into consideration current innovative meth- odologies and strategies for quality improvement practices in the delivery of health care services that represent best practices for such quality improvement and measures endorsed by the entity with a contract under section 1890 since the previous review by the Secretary. ‘‘(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall preclude a State from using the quality measures identified under sections 1139A and 1139B.’’. (c) FUNDING.—For purposes of carrying out the amendments made by this section, the Secretary shall provide for the transfer, from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund under section 1817 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i) and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund under section 1841 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1395t), in such proportion as the Secretary determines appropriate, of $20,000,000, to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management Account for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Amounts transferred under the preceding sentence shall remain available until expended. SEC. 3015. DATA COLLECTION; PUBLIC REPORTING. Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.), as amended by section 3011, is further amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘SEC. 399II. COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA FOR QUALITY AND RESOURCE USE MEASURES. ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall collect and aggregate consistent data on quality and resource use measures from informa- tion systems used to support health care delivery to implement the public reporting of performance information, as described in section 399JJ, and may award grants or contracts for this purpose. The Secretary shall ensure that such collection, aggregation, and analysis systems span an increasingly broad range of patient popu- lations, providers, and geographic areas over time. ‘‘(b) GRANTS OR CONTRACTS FOR DATA COLLECTION.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award grants or con- tracts to eligible entities to support new, or improve existing, efforts to collect and aggregate quality and resource use meas- ures described under subsection (c). ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible for a grant or con- tract under this subsection, an entity shall— ‘‘(A) be— ‘‘(i) a multi-stakeholder entity that coordinates the development of methods and implementation plans for the consistent reporting of summary quality and cost information; ‘‘(ii) an entity capable of submitting such summary data for a particular population and providers, such as a disease registry, regional collaboration, health plan collaboration, or other population-wide source; or ‘‘(iii) a Federal Indian Health Service program or a health program operated by an Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improve- ment Act); ‘‘(B) promote the use of the systems that provide data to improve and coordinate patient care; 42 USC 280j–1.
