Sec. 311.036.  DATA VERIFICATION.  (a)  Before the department may publish the report required by Section 311.035 or provide data to the public in any other manner, the department shall give each hospital a copy of the preliminary report or provide the hospital an opportunity in some other manner to verify the data relating to that hospital.
(b)  If a hospital does not submit corrected data before the 31st day after the date on which the hospital receives the preliminary report or other data, the department shall presume that the data is correct.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.