MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PERSONNEL

Missouri House of Representatives
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MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PERSONNEL
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: Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians.

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

: Creates the Missourians Helping Missourians Trust Fund.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Establishes the criteria for use of the title "registered nurse first assistant" and requires insurance coverage for the services provided by such assistants.

: Requires health insurance coverage for bone marrow testing.

: Requires the implementation of a state suicide prevention plan by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide educational material and information on prostate cancer screenings and testing.

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

: Revises law on licensing of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

: Regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine.

: Exempts diabetic medical supplies and devices from sales taxation.

: Revises the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

: Requires parental consent to prescribe birth control to minors.

: Provides insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Regulates dental services provided by not-for-profit corporations.

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic health information.

: Allows emergency personnel to seek recovery and damages from people who by their acts, ommissions, or willful or culpable negligence cause such personnel to suffer injury, disease or death.

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

: Modifies health insurance and prohibits use of public funds for abortion or human cloning.

: Prohibits human cloning.

: Prohibits gender selection of embryos for implantation by in vitro fertilization.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Increases access to and health insurance coverage for chiropractic care.

: Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services.

: Requires informed consent prior to the administration of mental health treatment and services.

: Allows philosophical beliefs to be a basis for objection to required school immunizations.

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

: Enacts the Disposition of Human Fetuses Act.

: 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.

: Expands the list of medical facilities and agencies that must report disciplinary actions.

: Allows a parent to leave a child in the custody of a hospital without threat of criminal prosecution for child abandonment.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding protection of the elderly.

: Provides health insurance coverage for hearing exams and hearing aids.

: Regulates use of psychotropic medications for school children.

: Adds testing for various metabolic and genetic diseases to the list of newborn screenings and requires insurance coverage for such diseases.

: Revises health insurance laws.

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

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

: Modifies provisions regarding the confidentiality of the Department of Health and Senior Services' central registry information on genetic disorders and birth defects.

: Creates the State Board of Emergency Medical Services.

: Establishes a nurse staffing plan for hospitals.

: Modifies various provisions for the licensure of clinical perfusionists.

: Provides health insurance coverage for a second opinion when a patient with a newly diagnosed cancer is referred to a specialist.

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

: Requires health insurance coverage for clinical trials for treatment of cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

: Expands the medical testing performed on persons delivered to the Department of Corrections.

: Requires "medical necessity" to be determined solely by the treating licensed health care provider.

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

: Requires hepatitis B testing, in addition to HIV testing, for crime victims and prisoners.

: 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.

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

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

: Creates the Missouri State Emergency Health Powers Act to address state public health emergencies.

: 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.

: Requires insurance companies to cover treatment for overweight and obese persons.

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

: Prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing providers for non-therapeutic circumcisions.

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

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

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

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

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

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

: Increases state emergency health powers.

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

: Creates a grant program for the establishment of an umbilical cord blood bank.

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

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

: Revises laws relating to ambulance districts and ambulance services.

: 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.

: Requires certain facilities to provide immunizations for influenza and pneumonia to elderly residents.

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

: Requires further accountability of first responders and emergency medical technicians.

: Exempts diabetic medical supplies from local sales taxes.

: Relates to the regulation and licensing of professional addiction counselors.

: Mandates coverage for fertility medications and requires insurers to offer coverage for other infertility services.

: Allows the continuation of a newborn hearing screening from a transferring facility to a receiving facility.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am