HEALTH CARE

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH CARE
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: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes and child placing agencies.

: Establishes the Missouri Rx card program to provide prescription drug discounts to certain Medicare-eligible and uninsured Missouri residents.

: Modifies the rebate amounts given for prescription drugs under the Senior Rx Program.

: Repeals certificate of need law.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

: Requires health insurance carriers to include chiropractors as providers for covered conditions under basic health care coverage.

: Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage for cancer clinical trials.

: Establishes the Mandated Health Benefit Review Commission within the Department of Insurance to review all existing and proposed mandated health benefits.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Requires informed consent at least twenty-four hours prior to an abortion and requires persons who perform abortions to maintain proof of financial responsibility.

: Exempts certain persons from the licensure requirements for massage therapists.

: Enacts various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage for clinical trials for treatment of cancer.

: Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing high levels of calcium.

: Prohibits the cloning of human beings.

: Makes certain diseases disabilities for workers compensation coverage of police officers.

: Amends the requirements for health maintenance organizations relating to membership forms and certificates of authority.

: Amends the requirements for health maintenance organizations regarding sufficiency of health networks.

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

: Enacts nurse staffing requirements for all hospitals licensed in this state.

: Establishes a state suicide prevention plan and an Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management; requires certain mental health service plans.

: Requires medical malpractice insurance rates to be approved by the Department of Insurance.

: Requires health insurers to provide coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Modifies the rebate amount for prescription drugs in the Senior Rx Program and revises Medicaid laws.

: Expands current mandated health insurance coverage to include coverage for chemical dependency.

: Amends the Animal Research and Production Facilities Protection Act.

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

: Establishes registration for anesthesiologist assistants.

: Expands the practice of dentistry to include the use of lasers.

: Changes the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

: Limits the application of the certificate of need law to long-term care facilities.

: Increases the cigarette and tobacco product sales tax to fund various health initiatives.

: Establishes a vaccination program for first responders.

: Limits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need law.

: Places restrictions on the original licensure of acute care hospitals.

: Establishes the Missouri State Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Creates the Comprehensive Patient Education and Healthcare Cost Improvement Pilot Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Establishes the Cancer Drug Repository Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide cancer drugs to low-income Missouri residents.

: Requires students living in on-campus housing at universities and colleges to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease.

: Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage for the treatment of inherited diseases of amino and organic acids.

: Legalizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

: Authorizes tax credits for contributions to pregnancy resource centers.

: Requires medical transport drivers to be certified and display a windshield placard when performing medical transports for compensation.

: Enacts the Woman's Right to Know Act which raises public awareness and promotes appropriate counseling for emergency birth control measures.

: Requires prisoners to use their insurance if any or pay for any medical attention, dental care or medicine provided by the Department of Corrections.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act".

: Creates the Certificate of Need Revolving Fund.

: Establishes the Missouri Rural Health Initiative and the Missouri Rural Health Services Commission in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Creates a research and development tax credit for certain businesses in targeted industries.

: Establishes March 6th as Lymphedema D-Day in Missouri.

: Creates the Comprehensive Patient Education and Healthcare Cost Improvement Pilot Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Declares support and urges passage of the federal "Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003" to provide more affordable health insurance coverage for employees of small businesses.

: Modifies provisions relating to in-home services for the elderly.

: Creates a tax credit for 25% of the unreimbursed cost of health insurance premiums paid by individuals.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Allows employees to take six weeks of paid leave for family or medical reasons.

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

: Requires insurers to offer optional coverage for weight reduction counseling services.

: Creates a certificate of birth for stillborn children.

: Mandates insurance coverage for new phases of clinical trials and certain prostate examinations.

: Eliminates time restrictions for children with special health care needs under Missouri's Health Insurance Program for Children.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Prohibits use of genetic information and testing for insurance purposes.

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

: Prohibits health carriers from changing conditions of its drug formulary during contract period.

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

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

: Authorizes the Bureau of Communicable Diseases to monitor epidemiological studies for suspected bioterrorist agents.

: Requires consent twenty-four hours prior to an abortion and proof of financial responsibility to perform abortions.

: Creates the Missouri Office of Pharmaceutical Reporting.

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

: Requires the Department of Mental Health to develop a plan to address the needs of persons with developmental disabilities who are on waitlists for services.

: Enacts various tort reform measures.

: Regulates the licensing and registration of anesthesiologist assistants.

: Modifies the rebate amount for prescription drugs in the Missouri Senior Rx program.

: Creates the Missouri calcium initiative.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Work comp for occupational disease for law enforcement.

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

: Establishes a December 15, 2003, deadline for a Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan study which is presently required by law but has no deadline.

: Mandates insurance coverage for new phases of clinical trials undertaken for the treatment of cancer.

: Mandates insurance coverage for certain prostrate examinations.

: Creates a Naturopathic Medicine subdivision with the Board for Healing Arts.

: Requires director of insurance to approve or reject medical malpractice insurance rates on enumerated factors.

: Establishes the Missouri State Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management.

: Creates the "Women's Right To Know Act".

: Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage of clinical trials.

: Requires licensed hospitals to fill nurse staffing needs based on an acuity system.

: Modifies the law relating to informed consent for experimental treatment by accredited teaching hospitals.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act".

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

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

: Limits certificate of need to only long-term care facilities.

: Creates the Division of Community Health.

: Requires students enrolled in institutions of higher education to receive meningitis vaccine.

: Deems a health carrier's network to be adequate has been accredited by certain organizations.

: Establishes mandated health benefit review commission and eliminates certain mandates from health policies.

: Modifies the law relating to the screening of genetic diseases and birth defects.

: Extends the expiration date for the federal reimbursement allowance program for hospitals.

: Relates to the regulation and licensing of Professional Addiction Counselors.

: Adds definitions for "protective oversight" and "voluntary leave" in the Omnibus Nursing Home Act.

: Modifies provisions of the state health care plan regarding public entity participation in such plan.

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Subjects nonprofit health entities to additional review by the AG before they can convert to for-profit entities.

: Establishes the "Comprehensive Patient Education and Healthcare Cost Improvement Pilot Program".

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

: Requires providers of long-term care services to be reimbursed for reasonable and adequate costs.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Modifies the law regarding medical malpractice actions against health care providers.

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

: Creates a comprehensive children's mental health service system.

: Creates an interim committee to study the streamlining of state employee benefits.

: Establishes the Hepatitis C Task Force.

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Last Updated July 9, 2003 at 10:46 am