HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
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: Repeals certificate of need law.

: 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.

: 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.

: Makes it a crime to engage in human cloning.

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

: Prohibits the cloning of human beings.

: Prohibits physicians and surgeons with federal whistle-blower protections from having their professional license disciplined by the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

: 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.

: Revises the law on nursing home administrators.

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

: Modifies various provisions regarding tort actions for personal injury.

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

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

: Includes emergency medical technicians-intermediate serving in the City of St. Louis in the definition of "EMT-I" in section 190.100.

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

: Establishes registration for anesthesiologist assistants.

: Changes the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

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

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Regulates the licensing and registration of naturopathic physicians.

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

: Revises dietitians licensure.

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

: Revise statutes on physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

: Requires the reporting of knife and explosive weapon wounds as well as gunshot wounds to law enforcement by certain health care providers.

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

: Allows nursing home districts to establish senior housing within the corporate limits of the district.

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

: Enacts the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Acts.

: Creates the Certificate of Need Revolving Fund.

: Enacts the Missouri Physicians Mutual Insurance Company Act.

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

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

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

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

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

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

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

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Modifies licensing of dietitians.

: Establishes the Missouri Patients' Compensation Fund to assist health care providers with excess liability coverage.

: 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.

: Authorizes licensed ground ambulance services in Saint Louis County to provide critical care ambulance service.

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

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

: Creates a malpractice settlement tax.

: 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.

: Modifies licensing of dietitians.

: 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.

: Modifies licensing of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

: Modifies provisions relating to jury service.

: Modifies provisions relating to the licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and the practice of nursing.

: Requires specified training for professional counselors wishing to diagnose mental and emotional disorders.

: Includes health care providers working in county jails in legal expense fund.

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Creates the Missouri Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association.

: Modifies licensing of dietitians.

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

: Creates the Missouri Physicians Mutual Insurance Company Act.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

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

: Establishes the Hepatitis C Task Force.

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