Sec. 6. (a) Before March 1, 2024, and before March 1 of each subsequent year, an Indiana nonprofit hospital system shall submit the following:
(1) Information the department or the department's third party contractor determines is necessary to make the assessments required in this chapter.
(2) Standard charge information required to be made public by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for price transparency for each hospital facility within the Indiana nonprofit hospital system.
(b) Information required under this section shall be submitted to the department in a manner prescribed by the department.
(c) Except as provided in section 8 of this chapter, any records or documents disclosed to, received by, or generated by the department for purposes of this chapter are exempt from the requirements of IC 5-14-3.