PHYSICIANS

Missouri House of Representatives
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PHYSICIANS
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: Authorizes certain retired or off-duty officers to carry concealed weapons.

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

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Revises law on the licensing of nursing home administrators.

: Revises workers' compensation law.

: Requires insurers to issue a uniform prescription drug information card to enrollees.

: 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 parental consent to prescribe birth control to minors.

: Allows public hospitals to close portions of their records.

: Enacts the Emergency Preparedness Resource Act.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Allows persons to execute an advanced directive for mental health treatment.

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

: Prohibits anyone from holding themselves out to the public as performing spinal manipulation without chiropractic training.

: Requires physicians to maintain adequate, complete, and legible written patient records for each patient.

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

: Allows physicians to be disciplined for actions that arise out of collaborative practice agreements.

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

: Allows registered nurses to order therapies under collaborative agreements if the registered nurse is an advanced practice nurse.

: Adds informed consent provisions prior to the performance of an abortion.

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

: Requires a health carrier to allow any qualified health care provider to participate in its network.

: Prohibits public hospitals from not employing any licensed physician who complies with all hospital rules.

: Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly.

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

: Allows the state to temporarily license certain health care practitioners during a state public health emergency.

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

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Requires managed care organizations to provide chiropractic benefits to enrollees.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Requires physicians to maintain adequate and complete medical records for their patients.

: Revises laws on health insurance. Permits organ donations by persons sixteen years old.

: Requires informed consent at least twenty-four hours before an abortion.

: Outlines procedures for the comanagement of patients by optometrists and ophthalmologists.

: Prohibits health carriers from changing health services codes without the permission of the physician.

: Requires informed consent by a women before the performance of an abortion.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic health information.

: Modifies the law relating to health care professionals under the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

: Requires the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to accept continuing medical education on autism.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am