HEALTH CARE

Missouri House of Representatives
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: Enacts the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act.

: Creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Regulates the use of single use medical devices.

: Provides for the emergency temporary commitment of a person with active tuberculosis.

: Requires health insurance coverage for scalp prostheses for persons with alopecia.

: Enacts the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

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

: Expands insurance coverage for diabetes.

: Makes various changes in the health insurance pool.

: Establishes a Children's Trust Fund home visitation program for parents under the age of twenty-one with newborns.

: Establishes criteria for stretcher van operators.

: Adds varicella and hepatitis A to the list of required immunizations for children and narrows the scope of practice of emergency medical technicians.

: Includes philosophical beliefs as a basis for refusing child immunizations.

: 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.

: Adds certain blood tests for pregnant women and establishes Office on Women's Health.

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

: Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and specifies the uses of the moneys in the fund.

: Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter weight loss products in pill, tablet or capsule form to minors.

: Requires the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research.

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

: Requires persons convicted of intoxication-related offenses and weapons offenses to pay an additional court cost to provide funding to trauma centers.

: Provides for the licensure of home care companies by the Department of Health.

: Requires pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program to provide Medicare prescriptions at the Medicaid rate.

: Changes the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

: Requires certain health insurance mandates to be tested in the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan first.

: Makes various changes regarding pharmacies.

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

: Requires the Department of Health to adopt the federal Food and Drug Administration's Food Code of 1999.

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

: Requires health carriers to offer all health plans as open referral plans and provide prescription cards if pharmaceutical coverage is provided.

: Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for hearing aids.

: Makes various changes in health insurance laws to comply with changes in the federal law.

: Allows the Department of Health to promote anti-obesity activities to increase public awareness about the dangers of obesity.

: Requires the Department of Social Services and representatives of in-home service providers to negotiate a reimbursement rate.

: Makes various changes to the managed care statutes.

: Regulates stretcher van services.

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

: Changes certain provisions of the Controlled Substances Law.

: Exempts diabetic medical supplies and equipment from sales and use tax.

: Establishes county boards to utilize the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state.

: Creates a Medicaid voucher program in the Department of Social Services for recipients to obtain private health insurance if it is more cost effective.

: Creates the Office of State Ombudsman for Mental Health Facility Residents in the Lieutenant Governor's Office.

: Requires the departments of Mental Health and Health to conduct a study on expanding the services provided to persons with brain injuries.

: Creates an income tax credit for contributions to unplanned pregnancy resource centers.

: Establishes the Spinal Cord Injury Fund and creates a grant program through the University of Missouri for spinal cord injury research.

: Makes all aged, blind or disabled persons with annual incomes of up to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level eligible for medical assistance.

: Increases the income tax deduction for long-term health care insurance premiums from fifty to one hundred percent.

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

: Mandates various types of health insurance coverage.

: Requires health insurers to treat mental health and chemical dependency services in an identical manner as other medical services.

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

: Repeals the sunset provision for certificate of need for acute care facilities.

: Adopts mandatory health assessments for public school students.

: Establishes a joint interim committee to study an eye disease called macular degeneration.

: Establishes a committee to study the phenomenon of school-age children who are prescribed behavior control medication.

: Urges health care professionals and managed care plans to adopt the CDC/AAP recommendations regarding the judicious use of antibiotics.

: Establishes a Joint Interim Committee to make a comprehensive study on developing retirement medical cost account plans for state employees.

: Proposes constitutional amendment to establish a Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and to specify uses of moneys in the fund.

: Reauthorizes the Joint Committee on Health Care Policy and Planning.

: Modifies the licensure requirements of persons dealing with lead-bearing substances and creates fees.

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

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all Missouri citizens.

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

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

: 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.

: Enacts the dedication to donation act.

: Changes interest calculation method for withheld health insurance reimbursements.

: Adds certain protections for health care consumers.

: Relating to immunization.

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

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

: Allows a tax deduction for those who contribute to medical savings accounts.

: Allows a tax credit for persons who contribute to unplanned pregnancy resource centers.

: Extends the hospital federal reimbursement allowance to September 30, 2001.

: Makes several changes to individual and small employer health insurance law provisions.

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

: Provides an income tax credit for up to $1000 for residents of long term care facilities and home health care expenses.

: 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.

: Terminates the certificate of need process for long-term care facilities.

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

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Reauthorizes the Joint Committee on Health Care Policy and Planning.

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

: Requires the state to pay counties for health care costs of state prisoners.

: Allows parents to object to required immunizations for their children based on philosophical beliefs.

: 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.

: Closes portions of hospital records and meetings in certain situations.

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

: Provides for the licensure of home care companies by the Department of Health.

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

: Gives the Attorney General the additional power to investigate the abuse and neglect of residents of long term care facilities.

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

: Allows the establishment of a donated dental services program for certain eligible persons.

: Establishes the Office on Women's Health within the Department of Health.

: Establishes a blindness education and awareness program and fund.

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

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

: Enacts the "Naturopathic Certification Act".

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

: Revises medical record copying fees and repeals section 191.233.

: Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses.

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Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:53 pm