HEALTH CARE

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH CARE
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: Prohibits the Department of Revenue from conditioning the property and pharmaceutical tax credits on the filing of a federal income tax return.

: Includes the services of chiropractors in Medicaid coverage.

: Increases property tax credits for the elderly, exempts the elderly from sales tax on food and enhances Medicaid benefits.

: Limits motorcycle helmet requirement to persons under twenty-one years of age.

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

: Amends various provisions regarding managed care.

: Establishes a state systemic lupus erythematosis program in the Department of Health.

: Removes the prohibition on use of general revenue funds for certain Department of Health programs and includes dentists in planning for services in health care shortage areas.

: 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.

: Changes the allowable supply of medication to be received by certain enrollees through a pharmaceutical plan and requires collection agencies to be informed when payments are made on patient accounts.

: Requires health insurers to offer contraceptive coverage to enrollees.

: Requires health insurers to provide diabetes coverage to enrollees.

: Requires all health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards.

: Requires pharmacies to notify the Board of Pharmacy of any known mistakes in prescriptions.

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

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

: Regulates stretcher van services.

: Creates a state income tax credit for certain small employers who provide health insurance for eligible employees.

: 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.

: Requires a roll call on votes to close meetings; penalizes negligent violations of sunshine law; increases penalties for violations of sunshine law.

: Requires certain health-related information to be provided to the Department of Corrections on delivery of an offender.

: Enacts various laws regulating ambulance services and stretcher vans.

: Requires the Department of Health to designate centers of excellence in women's health.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Requires certain children to receive hepatitis A immunizations.

: Amends various provisions regarding managed care.

: Expands eligibility for medical assistance to include persons who are aged, blind or disabled with annual incomes of up to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

: Mandates health insurance coverage for hearing aids.

: Requires persons convicted of intoxication-related offenses and weapons offenses to pay an additional court fee to fund trauma centers.

: Removes the prohibition on the use of general revenue funds for certain Department of Health programs and includes dentists in planning for services in health care shortage areas.

: Provides funding for federally qualified health centers.

: Redefines the supervision of physician assistants by physicians.

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

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

: Requires a roll call on votes to close meetings; penalizes negligent violations of sunshine law; increases penalties for violations of sunshine law.

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

: Makes various amendments regarding the practice of pharmacy.

: Modifies statutory provisions regarding licensure of nursing home administrators.

: Uses tobacco settlement moneys for a smoking cessation treatment program.

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

: 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.

: Exempts from state income tax all amounts spent for medical insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs.

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

: Excludes the cash value of insurance policies for purposes of determining eligibility for Medicaid and Medicare for persons sixty-five years of age and older.

: Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act.

: 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.

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

: Establishes a life sciences research program, creates a life sciences research board, and provides for disposition of tobacco settlement moneys.

: Requires the Division of Aging to create and distribute a publication that provides a comprehensive listing of companies and organizations providing services for older adults.

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

: Requires the Department of Health to develop recommendations on methods of reducing medication errors.

: Changes the name of the Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Division of Developmental Disabilities.

: Amends various provisions regarding licensed dietitians.

: 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.

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

: Makes various changes regarding the health insurance pool.

: Allows state employees to take a leave of absence to serve as a bone marrow or human organ donor.

: Creates a zero expenditure minimum for new services for purposes of the certificate of need laws.

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

: 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.

: Amends various provisions regarding in-home care for the elderly.

: Requires HMOs to provide direct access to ob/gyn services, bone density testing and contraceptive coverage, and notify enrollees of cancer screenings available through their insurance.

: Amends various provisions regarding the standards for nursing homes.

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

: Increases access to chiropractic services for purposes of insurance coverage.

: Establishes certification procedures for naturopaths.

: Establishes a pharmacy discount program for certain Medicaid eligible persons.

: Modifies the qualifications for members of the Missouri Genetic Advisory Committee.

: Requires the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan to complete contract agreements prior to January 1 of the year in which they are effective.

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

: Modifies the income categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Creates parity between institutional and noninstitutional eligibility requirements for Medicaid.

: Provides for the deposit, investment, and appropriation of tobacco settlement moneys received by the state.

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

: Revises hospital whistle blower provision and enacts the Missouri Health Facilities Review Law.

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

: Provides health insurance coverage for the treatment of maple syrup urine disease.

: Allocates a portion of any tobacco settlement moneys for a grant program to increase the availability of ventilators in long-term care facilities.

: Waives the state's sovereign immunity for purposes of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

: Allows legal settlements received by the state to be appropriated for education and health care.

: Permits court-ordered testing of persons whose bodily fluids have come in contact with certain employees.

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to dedicate tobacco settlement money to the Children's Investment Fund.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment which creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and an endowment.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to require funds from legal settlements to be used for health care and education.

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

: Requires a standardized form to be used by health carriers for explanation of benefits and referrals.

: 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.

: Requires the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan to contract for a long term care insurance option for state employees.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee and allows incresed contributions to organ donation programs.

: Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for twenty-four hours of inpatient care following surgery.

: Provides protection for health care consumers.

: Establishes the Joint Committee on Health Care, Policy and Planning.

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

: 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 placement of a deaf or hearing impaired notation on driver's licenses.

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

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing exams, hearing aide and other hearing devices and services.

: Requires insurers to provide annual claim reports to group policyholders.

: Increases access to chiropractic services for insurance purposes.

: Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

: Allows the certification of naturopathic practitioners.

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

: Prohibits health carriers from requiring providers to use hospitalists and use all of the carrier's services.

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

: Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products to fund the Missouri Pharmaceutical Assistance Program.

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

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

: Revises law on dental services.

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

: Establishes purposes for Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Requires Medicaid eligibility for certain disabled workers.

: Allows expanded funding for Department of Health programs.

: Revises "prompt-pay" provisions for health carriers and places other restrictions on health carriers.

: 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.

: Requires the Department of Mental Health to assess persons referred to them and provide residential treatment services to such persons.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Modifies licensure provisions for pharmacists and pharmacies.

: Expands the obigation of the Missouri Property and Casualty Guaranty Association for certain claims of insolvent insurers.

: Healthy Families Trust Fund to pay for certain health insurance costs.

: Requires compliance with federal law in drug labeling.

: Requires newly mandated health insurance coverage benefits to apply to Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan before implementing them generally.

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

: Prohibits the disclosure of medical information unless specific individual authorizes its release.

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

: Requires long term care facilities to return unused medications to pharmacies for reuse and reimbursement.

: Revises licensure procedures for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

: Transfers the licensure of emergency medical technicians to the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

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

: Creates a fixed and contingent expiration date for the federal reimbursement allowance program.

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

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

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

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

: Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage of specific cancer and special condition clinical trials after August 28, 2001.

: Establishes Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am