HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 1st Regular Session (2005)
Bills Indexed by Subject
HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

: Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery

: Establishes the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance Act of 2005

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program to provide a publicly financed, statewide insurance program for all residents of this state

: Allows health care professionals deployed during a declared state of emergency to be immune from certain civil liabilities

: Allows dental assistants in third classification counties to perform certain cleaning procedures upon meeting specific training criteria

: Prohibits the issuance and allows for the revocation of a real estate license of a person convicted of certain felonies and defines exclusive brokerage agreements

: Establishes criteria for delegating procedures involving lasers, pulsed light, and radio and microwaves to persons who are not licensed physicians

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish and oversee a voluntary hepatitis C testing program for health care providers

: Increases the fees health care providers can charge for copying a patient's health care record

: Establishes safe staffing and quality care accountability requirements for veterans homes and mental health facilities

: Provides for the registration of surgical assistants and surgical technologists

: Changes the laws regarding health care liens

: Changes the laws affecting claims for damages and their payment and establishes venue in all tort actions

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

: Adds certified nurse practitioners to the list of health care providers authorized to issue a physician's statement for the purpose of obtaining a disabled license plate

: Creates an out-of-hospital do-not-attempt-to-resuscitate order to prevent resuscitation attempts by emergency medical technicians, first responders, and other health care providers

: Changes the laws regarding the licensing of podiatrists

: 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

: Creates the crimes of first, second, and third degree abuse of a person receiving mental health services by health care providers

: Changes the laws regarding suicide prevention

: Creates exceptions to the prohibition on sexual offender counselors related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity to any person who has a financial interest in the service provider

: Changes the laws regarding physician assistants

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information under certain circumstances

: Changes the laws regarding medical malpractice liability

: Establishes criteria for the registration and licensure of doctors of naturopathic medicine

: Provides specific conditions for which a mandatory reporter of child abuse and neglect will have reasonable cause to believe that a child has been abused

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

: Prohibits a physician to whom a patient is referred for diagnosis by another physician from delegating the diagnosis to a nurse or nurse practitioner

: Establishes the Birth Control Protection Act and prohibits any governmental entity from interfering with the right to obtain or use contraceptives

: Requires insurers providing medical malpractice insurance to health care providers in third and fourth classification counties to establish rates based on claims history in these counties

: Requires certain health care data to be collected and reported by hospitals and establishes the Missouri Adverse Health Care Event Reporting Act of 2005

: Prohibits health insurers from discriminating against any willing optometrist or ophthalmologist in the geographic region of the health benefit plan

: Gives hospital medical staff the right of self-governance on certain issues

: Changes the laws regarding ambulatory medical treatment centers

: Establishes the Missouri Health Care Stabilization Fund to provide excess medical malpractice coverage to health care providers

: Changes the laws regarding claims for damages and the payment thereof

: Gives patients the right to receive copies of all medical and laboratory test results ordered or authorized by a health care provider

: Requires hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to implement an acuity-based patient classification system

: Makes any contract or subcontract limiting a health care provider's ability to enter into similar contracts or agreements with other entities against public policy and void

: Establishes the Office of Missouri Surgeon General within the Department of Health and Senior Services and changes the laws regarding health care providers

: Urges the United States Congress to repeal the death tax.

: Requests the Missouri Congressional Delegation to support meaningful class action reform and medical malpractice liability reform.

: Modifies laws relating to abortion

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

: Modifies language regarding anti-kickback penalties and certain pharmaceutical companies and establishes the "Well-Being committee" to aid pharmacies

: Creates the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance Act

: Enacts various changes to medical malpractice liability

: Authorizes advanced practice nurses to prescribe certain controlled substances

: Revises licensing requirements for speech language pathologists and audiologists

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory medical treatment centers

: Establishes a prescription monitoring program

: Modifies a number of provisions regarding professional registration

: Modifies provisions regarding licensing of podiatrists

: Provides health insurance coverage for phase I and phase II clinical trials for cancer treatment

: Modifies provision regarding athletic trainer licensing

: Requires health carriers to reimburse out-of-network chiropractors the same as other out-of-network providers

: Enacts various measures relating to tort reform

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory medical treatment centers

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

: Modifies education requirements for professional counselors

: Exempts dentists from acupuncture licensing requirements

: Authorizes professional counselors to diagnose

: Establishes the MO Health Care Stabilization Fund to assist health care providers with excess liability coverage

: Provides the requirements for seeking a surrogate to make health care decisions when the patient is incapacitated.

: Allows medical malpractice JUA to issue various types of medical malpractice policies and refund surcharges.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated August 25, 2005 at 1:26 pm