HOSPITALS

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
HOSPITALS

: Creates the presumption that a minor younger than 14 years of age who is seeking an abortion is a victim of statutory rape in the first degree and must be reported by the abortion provider

: Allows licensed ambulance services, emergency medical response agencies, and not-for-profit organizations which contract for ambulance services to establish peer review committees

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

: Establishes criteria for hospital governing bodies granting staff privileges

: Changes the laws regarding health care liens

: Changes the laws regarding ventilator-associated pneumonia that can originate or occur in a hospital or hospital-like setting

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

: Changes the procedures used in the examination and treatment of victims of sexual offenses

: Requires health care facilities in which a person dies to inform in writing the person transporting the dead body if the person had a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease

: Changes the laws regarding physician assistants

: Requires health care providers to notify patients prior to referring them to an out-of-network provider and if none is available, the services will cost no more than those provided within the network

: Limits certificate of need to long-term care facilities

: Changes the types of facilities for children that are exempt from licensure by the Department of Social Services

: Provides funding for rural hospital infrastructure

: Exempts research programs and experimental medical procedures for patients with life-threatening emergencies from the informed consent requirement under certain conditions

: Requires direct billing by licensed health care professionals for anatomic pathology services rendered

: Requires direct billing by licensed health care professionals for anatomic pathology services rendered

: Establishes a program to supplement the state's Medicaid Program by reimbursing health care providers for uncompensated medical treatment and requires certain employers to pay a surcharge

: Changes the laws regarding medical malpractice insurance and the enforcement powers of the Department of Insurance and creates the Health Care Stabilization Fund Feasibility Board

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish a fee schedule for architectural plan review of new construction or alterations at certain health care facilities

: Requires health insurers to reimburse non-network emergency services in the same manner as network emergency services if the patient's medical condition prohibits transfer to a network provider

: Prohibits all abortions other than those necessary to save the life of the mother

: Requires hospitals to compile and post daily staffing information in patient care areas of each unit of the hospital

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery

: Requires any applicant for health care benefits under a public assistance program to identify his or her employer

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Establishes a prescription monitoring program

: Requires physicians to identify which type of collaborative practice arrangement they are engaging in and provide copies to the board

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Establishes a "health facilities construction plan review fee"

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:52 am