HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

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

: 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.

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

: 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.

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

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

: Limits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

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

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

: Establishes the Advisory Commission for Naturopathic Medicine.

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

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

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

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

: Revises various statutes relating to workers' compensation.

: Allows the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to issue provisional and temporary physical therapist licenses.

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

: Revises the statutes relating to claims for damages for personal injuries.

: Revises the statutes relating to the State Legal Expense Fund.

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

: Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.

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

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Establishes the Missouri Uniform Trust Code.

: 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.

: Establishes the Consumer Protection Act for Wheeled Mobility.

: Establishes the Registered Surgical Assistant and Registered Surgical Technologist Title Protection Act.

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

: Enacts various medical malpractice measures.

: Modifies law regarding how associations and companies may be formed to provide medical malpractice insurance.

: Enacts various civil liability reforms.

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

: 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.

: Prohibits individuals from engaging in or using public funds and facilities for human cloning.

: 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.

: Authorizes surgical comanagement arrangements.

: Modifies licensing of dietitians.

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

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Modifies law regarding how associations and companies may be formed to provide medical malpractice insurance.

: Requires athletic trainers to be licensed rather than registered.

: Restricts persons who can administer drugs by injection.

: Proposes a "any willing provider" law which would prohibit health insurers from discriminating against providers who are willing to meet the insurer's terms and conditions.

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

: Protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals.

: Modifies laws relating to professional registration.

: Enacts reciprocal nurse licensure compact.

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

: Dentists and dental hygienists may delegate certain duties to dental assistants.

: Allows licensed professional counselors to diagnose.

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

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

: Establishes the Prescription Drug Repository Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Modifies provisions relating to jury service.

: Modifies provisions relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Modifies licensure of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

: Provides title protection for advanced practice registered nurses.

: Exempts dentists from acupuncture licensing requirements.

: Creates the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance Act.

: Establishes certain employment rights for emergency response personnel aimed at preventing strikes.

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

: Establishes the Missouri Area Health Education Centers program.

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

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

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:10 am