State Senate Bill 505 requires Georgia hospitals to annually publish and update specific financial information on their websites utilizing templates provided by the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH).
The templates are intended to standardize uniform reporting across all Georgia hospitals by July 1, 2025. Download Zip File of Templates Here.
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Georgia Senate Bill 505 (SB505) went into effect on April 4, 2024, requiring certain Georgia hospitals to revise publication of their organizational and financial documents on their websites to align with the standardized templates provided by the Department of Community Health (DCH). For-profit hospitals are excluded.The State Office of Rural Health (SORH) within DCH has been working with partners and stakeholders on the “Hospital Information Transparency” project for several months to develop standardized templates that hospitals must utilize to publish the list of organizational and financial documents outlined in SB505. Building on the original House Bill 321, SB505 mandates posting of certain “Organizational & Financial Information” in a prominent location on the main page of the hospital’s website that links to the list of specific documents outlined in the statute by July 1, 2025.
Hospitals must also provide DCH updated URL links via email at [email protected] by August 1 annually. The hospital URL links will be located on DCH’s hospital transparency website.
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