MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PERSONNEL

Missouri House of Representatives
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MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PERSONNEL
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: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Regulates the use of single use medical devices.

: Establishes or modifies programs on organ transplants, assistive technology, lead abatement, blindness education, and obesity awareness.

: Prohibits the use of genetic information or test results for insurance purposes.

: Prohibits the acquisition, receipt, sale or transfer of fetal tissue, organs or body parts of a fetus or unborn child.

: Requires HIV testing of certain offenders.

: Prohibits health care providers from charging interest or fees on medical bills until thirty days after a final benefit determination is made and requires final benefit determinations.

: Enacts requirements for the regulation and licensing of the practice of naturopathic medicine.

: Requires providers to seek informed consent for mental health treatment.

: Makes various changes in the health insurance pool.

: Requires certain referrals to other health care professionals after a diagnosis of cancer and requires insurance coverage.

: Changes the detail base review procedures for state departments.

: Requires physicians to offer any pregnant woman seeking an abortion with the opportunity to view her sonogram.

: Prohibits the General Assembly from appropriating funds for assisted suicide.

: Establishes a pilot project for alternative licensure and incremental sanctioning of hospitals and establishes a registration program for embryo laboratories.

: Establishes a pilot project for alternative licensure and incremental sanctioning of hospitals and establishes a registration program for embryo laboratories.

: Requires long-term health care insurers to identify whether their policies are tax qualified and requires the Department of Insurance to put certain information in its buyers' guide.

: Regulates the quality of patient care provided by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.

: Requires the Department of Health to disclose the HIV status of certain persons.

: Prohibits the transfer of human fetal parts for valuable consideration.

: Exempts certain persons from the seven-year requirement for the licensure examination for physicians and surgeons and allows certain persons to apply for licensure as perfusionists.

: Makes additions to the list of persons immune from liability for reporting to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

: Makes various changes to the managed care statutes.

: Exempts from sales and use tax all sales for diabetic equipment and supplies.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Regulates persons and entities providing ambulance services.

: Requires hospitals to maintain certain minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the department of mental health.

: Allows insurers to carry forward premium tax credits if those credits were not used in the year accrued.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly.

: Enacts the dedication to donation act.

: Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens.

: Creates new sections relating to the protection of health care consumers.

: Relating to immunization.

: Allows insurers to carry forward premium tax credits if those credits were not used in the year accrued.

: Allows certain individuals to carry concealed weapons.

: Requires a health carrier to allow any willing provider to participate in its network if that person satisfies all selection standards.

: Creates procedures for physicians to engage in negotiations with HMOs and certain other insurance companies.

: Adds persons involved in physician health programs to the list of non-liable persons who report information to the State Board of Registration for Healing Arts.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Allows registered professional nurses who are registered nurse anesthetists to dispense controlled substances to their patients.

: Protects health care employees who report abuses by health care facilities.

: Requires specific amounts of training before a person may perform spinal manipulation or adjustment.

: Requires disclosure to the Department of Health of the transfer of human fetal parts for research purposes.

: Allows psychologists to administer, order and prescribe medications after obtaining specific training.

: Requires physicians to disclose affiliations with health care providers in referral situations.

: Prohibits the use of non-competition clauses in certain physician contracts.

: Allows additional health care professionals to provide certain dental treatments to children.

: Limits access to public hospital meetings and records.

: Limits the use of genetic information by insurance companies, employers, and genetic testing laboratories.

: Revises medical record copying fees and repeals section 191.233.

: Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health.

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