---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 280j–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "280j–2"
heading: "Public reporting of performance information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/280j-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part S — Health Care Quality Programs"
  - "Subpart i — national strategy for quality improvement in health care"
---

# §280j–2. Public reporting of performance information

- (a) **Development of performance websites—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall make available to the public, through standardized Internet websites, performance information summarizing data on quality measures. Such information shall be tailored to respond to the differing needs of [hospitals](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) and other institutional [health care providers](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=1), physicians and other clinicians, patients, consumers, researchers, policymakers, [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), and other stakeholders, as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may specify.
- (b) **Information on conditions—** The performance information made publicly available on an Internet website, as described in [subsection (a)](#a), shall include information regarding clinical conditions to the extent such information is available, and the information shall, where appropriate, be [provider](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8)-specific and sufficiently disaggregated and specific to meet the needs of patients with different clinical conditions.
- (c) **Consultation—**
  - (1) **In general—** In carrying out this section, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall consult with the entity with a contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)](/usc/42/1395aaa.md?p=a)], and other entities, as appropriate, to determine the type of information that is useful to stakeholders and the format that best facilitates use of the reports and of performance reporting Internet websites.
  - (2) **Consultation with stakeholders—** The entity with a contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)](/usc/42/1395aaa.md?p=a)] shall convene multi-stakeholder groups, as described in such section, to review the design and format of each Internet website made available under [subsection (a)](#a) and shall transmit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) the views of such multi-stakeholder groups with respect to each such design and format.
- (d) **Coordination—** Where appropriate, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall coordinate the manner in which data are presented through Internet websites described in [subsection (a)](#a) and for public reporting of other quality measures by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), including such quality measures under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 1395](/usc/42/1395.md) et seq.].
- (e) **Authorization of appropriations—** To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 399JJ, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title III, § 3015, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 388.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Title XVIII of the Act is classified generally to subchapter XVIII (§ 1395 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of this title and Tables.