HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
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: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

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

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

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

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

: Revises law on the licensing of nursing home administrators.

: Allows a parent to leave a child less than thirty days old in the custody of certain professionals without subjecting themselves to criminal or civil liability.

: 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 the release of information regarding Class I standard violations by nursing homes to newspapers, radio stations, and television stations.

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

: Allows records concerning sex offenders to be released in certain circumstances.

: Regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine.

: Revises the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

: Requires parental consent to prescribe birth control to minors.

: 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.

: Allows public hospitals to close portions of their records.

: 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.

: Limits the psychiatric and psychological evaluation of students.

: 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.

: 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.

: Makes various changes regarding certificate of need law.

: Enacts and amends various provisions regarding long-term care staffing, career ladder provisions, and quality of care issues.

: Modifies various provisions regarding workers' compensation insurers.

: Creates crimes for sexual offenders who know they have HIV, amends HIV notification statutes, HIV disclosure statutes, prosecutors motion for HIV testing and the punishment for prostitution.

: 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.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provisions of in-home services to the elderly.

: Creates crime of assault while on the property of a hospital emergency room or trauma center.

: Provides standards for assisted living facilities.

: Allows private-pay skilled nursing facilities to receive Medicaid reimbursement for residents who reside in the facility for more than one year without certificate of need review.

: Amends various provisions regarding the reporting requirements for long-term care facilities.

: Requires the revocation or denial of a license for health care professionals who default on student loans.

: Establishes the Missouri Career Ladder Initiative Program for nurse assistants providing long-term care.

: Allows offenders in correctional centers to obtain alternative health care at their own expense.

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

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

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

: 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.

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

: 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.

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

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

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

: Requires health carriers to provide chiropractic care as par of their basic health care services.

: Allows refusal, suspension, or revocation of certain professional licenses due to student loan defaults.

: 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.

: Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications.

: Authorizes certain subpoena power for the board of pharmacy.

: Revises reciprocal licensing procedures for physical therapists.

: Increases state emergency health powers.

: 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.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

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

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

: Creates provisions relating to insurance mandates, reporting of health data, and the provisions of charity care.

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

: 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.

: Requires parity between insurance coverage for mental health services and other health care services.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: 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 further accountability of first responders and emergency medical technicians.

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

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund.

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

: Modifies provisions relating to air ambulance services.

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

: Imposes civil liability on any person violating Missouri's informed consent law for abortion.

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am