HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Missouri House of Representatives
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: Includes the services of chiropractors in Medicaid coverage.

: 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.

: Amends various provisions regarding managed care.

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

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

: 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.

: Makes a technical correction in temporary licenses for trauma training.

: Makes various amendments regarding the practice of pharmacy.

: Modifies statutory provisions regarding licensure of nursing home administrators.

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

: Adds the drug "ecstasy" to drug trafficking statutes, regulates methamphetamine precursor drugs, and establishes new penalties for theft and possession of anhydrous ammonia.

: Establishes an Advisory Commission for Dental Hygienists.

: 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.

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

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

: Establishes certification procedures for naturopaths.

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

: Provides procedures for the licensure of addiction counselors.

: Changes the name of the Medical School Loan Repayment Program to the Health Professional Student Loan Repayment Program and expands the program by including dentists.

: Allows pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions that are contrary to established policies or to their beliefs.

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

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

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

: 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.

: Revises the Family Care Safety Registry.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

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

: Modifies licensure provisions for pharmacists and pharmacies.

: 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.

: 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.

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

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

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am