The Maine Health Data Organization, established pursuant to Title 22, chapter 1683, and a nonprofit health data processing entity referred to in this chapter as the "Maine Health Information Center" or its successor organization may form a nonprofit corporation under Title 13-B in order to collect and process health care claims data, to be known as the Maine Health Data Processing Center, referred to in this chapter as the "center." The center shall carry out its purposes in complement to and in coordination with the Maine Health Data Organization and the Maine Health Information Center. [2001, c. 456, §1 (NEW).]
The center is a nonprofit corporation with a public purpose and the exercise by the center of the powers conferred by this chapter is an essential governmental function. [2001, c. 456, §1 (NEW).]