HEALTH CARE

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

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

: Establishes a comprehensive children's mental health services system.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to offer a vaccination program for first responders deployed to disaster areas as a result of bioterrorism events.

: Prohibits immunizations and dental restorations containing mercury after April 1, 2006.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

: Authorizes a tax credit for contributions to pregnancy resource centers.

: 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.

: Defines "next friend" for the purpose of consent to an abortion by a minor.

: Requires health insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Changes the name of residential care facilities to assisted living facilities.

: Revises the requirements for licensure of dieticians.

: 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 health carriers to offer plans with deductibles, coinsurance, and varying copayments.

: Establishes guidelines for the administration of drugs and medication by injection.

: Makes it a crime for a railroad corporation or its employees to interfere with medical treatment or first aid to an injured employee or to discipline or threaten an injured employee for seeking aid.

: Establishes the Dental Carve-Out Act of 2004 to implement a process for providing dental benefits to public assistance recipients.

: Establishes policies for education accountability.

: Revises various statutes relating to teachers and other school personnel.

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

: Requires health insurers to offer coverage for the treatment of morbid obesity.

: Requires hospitals and birth centers to provide parents with information on shaken baby syndrome.

: Modifies the formula used for determining health insurance premium costs for state employees in the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan.

: Authorizes a tax credit of up to $2,000 to offset the costs of treating PKU and related diseases.

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

: Expands definitions in professional counseling sections and provides that professional counselors attend continuing education programs.

: Provides for workers' compensation benefits.

: Revises the statutes regarding the Division of Professional Registration.

: Limits the Certificate of Need Program to long-term care facilities.

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

: Provides additional health insurance coverage for clinical trials for cancer treatment by adding phase I and II to the currently covered phase III and IV clinical trials.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to offer a vaccination program for first responders deployed to disaster areas as a result of bioterrorism events.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need process for the addition of long-term care beds.

: Allows public entities that self-insure health care benefits to require a right of subrogation in the same manner that the Department of Social Services has with the Medicaid Program.

: Revises various statutes relating to workers' compensation.

: Authorizes income tax check-off boxes for certain chronic illness charities.

: Authorizes additional sales taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products for health care purposes.

: Revises various statutes relating to claims for damages and the payment of these claims.

: Includes unborn children in the definition of "children" who are eligible to participate in the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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

: Legalizes the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

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

: Modifies the Long-term Care Ombudsman Program.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Creates the Police Chiefs' and Officers' Annuity and Healthcare Fund.

: Directs 25% of any tobacco settlement moneys received by this state to be used to create various incentives for rural Missouri.

: Authorizes surgical co-management arrangements.

: Establishes a program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide preventative and primary health care services to low-income pregnant women, mothers, and children.

: Requires incarcerated offenders to pay a $3 fee every time they receive nonemergency medical, dental, or optometric services.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: 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.

: Establishes the Consumer Protection Act for Wheeled Mobility.

: Establishes the Women's Right to Know Act to raise public awareness about the existence and availability of emergency contraception.

: Limits civil liability for school employees administering health care services in public school districts.

: Creates the Sickle Cell Anemia Fund.

: Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

: Designates October 15 as "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day."

: Enacts various medical malpractice measures.

: Allows a tax deduction for those who contribute to medical savings accounts.

: Enacts various civil liability reforms.

: Creates a tax credit for 10% of contributions to health reimbursement arrangements.

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

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

: Recognizes "registered nurse first assistants" and authorizes the board of Nursing to certify such practitioners.

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

: Creates the Missouri Office of Pharmaceutical Reporting.

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

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

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

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

: Modifies laws relating to vital records and the disposition of fetal remains.

: Modifies provision relating to Alzheimer's Demonstration Project.

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

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

: Authorizes surgical comanagement arrangements.

: Allows parents to refuse to vaccinate their children in certain circumstances.

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

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

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

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

: Mandates insurance coverage for certain prostrate examinations.

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

: Restricts persons who can administer drugs by injection.

: Requires organ procurement organizations to use their best efforts to find suitable recipients in Missouri.

: Requires applicants for Medicaid and CHIPs to identify the proposed beneficiary's employer.

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

: Regulates the licensing of naturopathic physicians.

: Requires access to medical treatment for injuries received during employment with a railroad company.

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

: Enacts various tort reform measures.

: Creates the Health Care for Missouri's People program for the uninsured and under-insured.

: Protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act" and allows the state registrar to issue certificates for stillborn children.

: Requires health carriers to provide coverage for mental health conditions in the same manner as physical health conditions.

: Changes the name of residential care facilities to assisted living facilities.

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

: Modifies provisions relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Requires entities that provide child, elder, and health care services to submit certain employment information to a database.

: Alllows physicians to jointly negotiate with certain health carriers.

: Provides advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority for controlled substances under a collaborative practice agreement.

: Includes unborn children within the definition of "children" for eligibility in CHIPs.

: Establishes the Missouri Area Health Education Centers program.

: Provides that the Department shall not require by rule any immunizations that are not specified in section 167.181, RSMo.

: Creates the "Emergency Care for Sexual Assault Victims Act of 2004".

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

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

: Urges the President to order the FDA to lift the ban on Canadian pharmaceuticals.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:10 am