MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PERSONNEL

Missouri House of Representatives
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MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PERSONNEL
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: Authorizes the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research.

: Requires insurance coverage for services provided by registered nurse first assistants and licensed physician assistants.

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

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the Department of Mental Health.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program at the University of Missouri to provide assistance for immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to organ transplant patients.

: Requires publication of records regarding the death of incarcerated offenders.

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

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

: Regulates stretcher van services.

: Creates a state income tax deduction of up to two thousand dollars for costs of documented health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses of individual taxpayers.

: Expands the newborn screening requirements to include additional treatable and manageable disorders.

: Enacts various laws regulating ambulance services and stretcher vans.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Requires certain children to receive hepatitis A immunizations.

: Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.

: Authorizes nonemergenecy medical transportation programs.

: Creates the Board of Ionizing Radiation Technology.

: Redefines the supervision of physician assistants by physicians.

: Allows certain health care professionals to provide dental treatments and establishes a dental hygienist advisory commission.

: Allows copies of certain records and reports to be mailed or faxed to treatment providers and therapists assigned to certain offenders.

: Establishes regulations and licensing provisions regarding the practice of naturopathic medicine.

: Expands the newborn screening requirements to include potentially treatable and manageable disorders.

: Makes various amendments regarding the practice of pharmacy.

: Requires all meetings and hearings of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to be conducted in Jefferson City.

: Establishes an Advisory Commission for Dental Hygienists.

: Creates mandatory vision screenings for first grade, kindergarten and Head Start students; provides lists of sources for such exams; funds exams for certain students.

: Establishes an advisory commission for dental hygienists and allows certain health care professionals to provide dental care.

: Creates a cause of action for firefighters, peace officers and emergency medical personnel for injuries they sustain in the course of their job duties.

: Adds meningitis vaccine to the list of required immunizations for school children.

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

: Requires physicians to maintain an adequate, complete and legible written patient record.

: Includes personal care attendants in the definition of "provider" and enhances the penalties for persons who violate section 660.317.

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

: Establishes the qualifications for persons performing spinal manipulation.

: Requires the Department of Health to adopt a blood-borne pathogen standard for occupational exposure of public employees to blood and infectious materials and revises law on needle safety.

: Creates the crime of cloning a human being.

: Requires health care professionals to inform their patients about EDTA chelation therapy.

: Requires physicians to counsel pregnant women of the effects of the use of certain abortion inducing drugs before prescribing the drug.

: Exempts the first six thousand dollars of expenditures for custodial care and durable medical equipment from state income tax, for a maximum tax savings of one thousand dollars.

: Establishes the Automated External Defibrillator Advisory Committee.

: Allows certain health care providers to enter into comanagement arrangements for the care and treatment of eye care patients.

: Requires informed parental consent prior to the prescribing of a psychiatric medication for a minor.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program to provide immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to other transplant patients.

: Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control to provide educational literature on prostate cancer to all males fifty years of age or older.

: Amends the requirements for informed consent prior to the performance of an abortion.

: Amends the statute regarding informed consent prior to the performance of an abortion.

: Prohibits human cloning and human embryo research that harms or destroys the embryo.

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

: Encourages state agencies and state-funded institutions to improve access to quality health care for women.

: Requires physicians who perform abortions to inform women of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

: Requires health plans to cover all services provided or ordered by registered nurse first assistants.

: Allows dental students to enroll in the loan repayment program and establishes a donated dental services program.

: Allows dental students to enroll in the loan repayment program and establishes a donated dental services program.

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

: Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a medical facility.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

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

: Authorizes state support of federally qualified health centers, subject to appropriation.

: Expands the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly.

: Provides additional protection for health care consumers.

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

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

: Provides protection for health care consumers.

: Grants immunity from civil suits to physicians' health programs for reporting information on licensees to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

: Allows a surviving spouse to obtain an autopsy report.

: Repeals certificate of need law and enacts law regarding "review certification".

: Enacts provisions for blood-borne pathogens, external defibrillators, lupus, tuberculosis, women's health services, and childhood lead testing.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Allows the certification of naturopathic practitioners.

: Requires interchangeable recognition of medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy by insurance companies.

: Clarifies continuing coverage for prosthetic devices or reconstructive surgery due to breast cancer.

: Requires the department of health to submit a biennial report to the general assembly regarding physician employment contracts with managed care entities.

: Requires the Department of Health to make a report detailing the contractual provisions between managed care entities and nurses.

: Revises law on dental services.

: Modifies provisions regarding reimbursements between health care professionals and health carriers.

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

: Allows expanded funding for Department of Health programs.

: Requires specific amounts of training before a person may perform certain chiropractic procedures.

: Provides for Medicaid eligibility for certain breast and cervical cancer patients.

: Promotes Alzheimer's awareness through public recognition and increased training.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Modifies licensure provisions for pharmacists and pharmacies.

: Outlines procedure for the comanagement of patients by certain physicians.

: Clarifies the use of non-compete clauses in contracts between physicians and hospitals.

: Establishes a Childhood Lead Testing Program in the Department of Health.

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

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am