PHYSICIANS

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
PHYSICIANS

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

: Permits a pregnant woman to determine the final disposition of human fetal remains.

: Establishes requirements for written prescriptions for controlled substances.

: Revises the statutes relating to the issuance of disabled license plates and placards.

: Establishes a prescription monitoring program in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social services programs to subsidize abortion services.

: Allows the Board of Nursing Home Administrators to hold disciplinary hearings and nursing home administrators to place their licenses on inactive status.

: Revises the statutes relating to jury service and creates the Lengthy Trial Fund.

: Establishes the Advisory Commission for Naturopathic Medicine.

: Prohibits the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts from disciplining physicians who participate in whistleblower activities in their professional capacity as employees of the federal government.

: Establishes the Missouri Medical Malpractice Mutual Insurance Company as an independent public corporation to insure Missouri physicians against liability for professional malpractice.

: Establishes the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance Act of 2004.

: Revises various statutes relating to workers' compensation.

: Revises various statutes relating to special needs child adoption tax credits, pregnancy resource centers, alternatives to abortions, and the Respect Life Commission.

: Creates notice provisions, reporting requirements, public market rates, and presumptions for the Department of Insurance and entities providing medical malpractice and professional negligence insurance.

: Distinguishes the practice of midwifery from the practice of medicine.

: Revises various statutes relating to informed consent for abortion.

: Requires organ procurement organizations to use their best efforts to find a suitable recipient for an anatomical gift of a vascular organ.

: Increases the Medicaid reimbursement for health care providers over the next five fiscal years.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Authorizes surgical co-management arrangements.

: Restricts the ability of health insurers to change the diagnosis and treatment codes entered by providers, prohibits insurers from charging providers to participate, and requires advance notice of fee changes.

: Prohibits health insurers from discriminating against any willing provider in the geographic region of the health benefit plan.

: Revises the statutes regarding the collection of evidence of a sexual assault and the procedures used in the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault.

: Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Enacts various medical malpractice measures.

: Enacts various civil liability reforms.

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

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

: Authorizes surgical comanagement arrangements.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Allows public hospitals in Clay County to close certain records and meetings.

: Creates licensure requirements for end stage renal disease dialysis facilities.

: Restricts persons who can administer drugs by injection.

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

: Regulates the licensing of naturopathic physicians.

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

: Enacts various tort reform measures.

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

: Modifies provisions relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Alllows physicians to jointly negotiate with certain health carriers.

: Improves access to vital records.

: States that section 334.253 does not prohibit the employment of physical therapists in certain rehabilitation facilities.

: Modifies the law relating to pharmacists, pharmacies, pharmaceutical services and drug distributors.

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am