Sec. 3. Data collection and reporting
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Director of Civil Rights and Health Equity, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Administrator of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall by regulation require all health care providers and facilities that are required under other provisions of law to report data on specific health outcomes to the Department of Health and Human Services in aggregate form, to disaggregate such data by demographic characteristics, including by race, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), disability, and age, as well as any other factor that the Secretary determines would be useful for determining a pattern of provision of inequitable health care.
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue proposed regulations to carry out paragraph (1). The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall— not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, establish a repository of the disaggregated data reported pursuant to subsection (a); subject to paragraph (3), make the data in such repository publicly available; and ensure that such repository does not contain any data that is individually identifiable.