HEALTH CARE

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

: Prohibits the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition or hydration from a patient without a specific written power of attorney granting the authority

: Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to implement a Missouri women's health services program

: Changes the laws regarding immunizations for children

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

: Establishes criteria for hospital governing bodies granting staff privileges

: Changes the laws regarding health care liens

: Provides insurance coverage for phase II clinical trials for cancer treatment

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

: Authorizes a sales tax exemption for certain fees and dues paid to health and fitness centers

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

: Requires health insurance coverage for certain chiropractic care services

: Prohibits an insurer from changing the coding that a health care provider submitted for services without the permission of the health care provider

: Changes the laws regarding the licensing and registration of certain professionals and establishes requirements for eye examinations for children in public schools

: Establishes the Missouri State Diabetes Commission to develop a state strategy for the prevention, treatment, and control of diabetes

: Establishes the Office of the Missouri Surgeon General within the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Makes persons who have been diagnosed with cancer eligible for Missouri Medicaid benefits

: Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation designating May 10 as "Hepatitis C Awareness Day"

: Makes it a crime for a patient, or the patient's parents or legal guardian if a minor, to fail to disclose to a health care professional that he or she is infected with human immunodeficiency virus

: Authorizes a checkoff on the Missouri individual and corporate income tax forms for donations for cervical cancer awareness and treatment and the calculation for individual net operating losses

: Transfers the Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council to the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Requires certain employers of 10,000 or more employees in this state to pay an assessment based on health care benefits paid for employees that do not reach a minimum expenditure level

: Allows the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose certain test results and personal information to a health care provider providing treatment without the individual's consent

: Establishes the Missouri Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Act to assist emergency services personnel and health care providers in carrying out the treatment wishes of patients

: Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies (CARE) Act and the Birth Control Protection Act and requires implementation of a women's health services program

: Provides funding for umbilical cord blood banks and non-fetal human stem cell research

: Establishes the Dental Carve-Out Act of 2006 to implement a process for providing dental benefits to public assistance recipients

: Establishes the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act which allows a health care professional to not participate in a health care service that violates his or her conscience

: Establishes a plan for use by the Department of Health and Senior Services to determine the amount of personal care services a residential care facility is entitled to under Title XIX

: Requires the Department of Social Services to determine the eligibility of an employed disabled person requesting medical assistance

: Provides funding for rural hospital infrastructure

: Changes the laws regarding health insurance coverage for formulas and products used in the treatment of inherited metabolic diseases

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

: Requires the Department of Social Services to determine if a child who became ineligible for state medical assistance has health insurance six months after becoming ineligible

: Excludes sheltered workshop employment income as income when determining eligibility for permanent and total disability benefits

: Establishes the Women's Preventive Health Services Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Abolishes the community advisory committee of the Missouri Foundation for Health and requires the Governor to make appointments to the foundation's board

: Changes the information required in an evidence of coverage statement under a policy issued by a health maintenance organization

: Changes the laws regarding the classification of marijuana as a controlled substance and legalizes the use of marijuana for medical purposes

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

: Requires the State Board of Education to establish a coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity

: Establishes the Health Care Responsibility Act which requires applicants for Missouri Medicaid Program assistance to identify their employers

: Changes the requirements for financial assistance for personal care services

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish and oversee hepatitis C testing for health care providers and first responders

: Repeals the provision requiring an employee to take paid leave, personal leave, or medical or sick leave when taking off for medical treatment, medical evaluations, or physical rehabilitation

: 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

: Establishes the Prescription Monitoring Act to monitor the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances

: Establishes the Safe Patient Care Act to regulate the mandatory overtime of health care workers

: Establishes the Health Care Whistleblower Protection Act to protect health care professionals from retaliatory actions by employers for reporting violations of law

: Requires health insurers to offer optional coverage for recognized treatments for morbid obesity

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

: Establishes the Asbestos and Silica Claims Priorities Act

: Establishes the Women's Health Services Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Establishes curriculum requirements for physical education classes

: Extends the expiration date of the financial assistance for the Consumer-directed Personal Care Services Program until June 30, 2008

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Insurance Act to provide comprehensive and necessary health care services for Missouri residents

: Allows the Division of Medical Services to reimburse medical assistance recipients for ancillary medical services based on division policy and subject to appropriations

: Directs the Comprehensive Cancer Action Plan for Missouri, which is a nationwide model of effective cancer control strategies, be posted annually on the Missouri state website homepage.

: Designates the tenth of May each year as "Hepatitis C Awareness Day" in Missouri.

: Recognizes February 2006 as American Heart Month in Missouri.

: Requests the Governor to establish the "Board of Naturopathic Medical Examiners" to determine the scope of the practice of naturopathic physicians.

: Allows health care professionals licensed in other states to provide health care services during the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk in Kansas City.

: Urges the General Assembly to support the passage of follow-up legislation to Senate Bill No. 539 which made sweeping changes to the state Medicaid program.

: Declares the month of March each year to be "Kidney Cancer Awareness Month" in Missouri.

: Enacts provisions relating to the capacity of an unborn child to experience pain during an abortion

: Creates a tax deduction for organ donation

: Provides health insurance coverage for Phase II clinical trials for cancer treatment

: Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for diagnostic testing services for chronic kidney disease patients

: Mandates health insurance coverage for morbid obesity

: Creates an income tax deduction for organ donation

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: Protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals

: Makes various changes to regulation of state and private mental health facilities

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Provides Medicaid benefits to all cancer patients

: Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery

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

: Prohibits any governmental entity from interfering with the right to obtain or use contraceptives

: Creates an income tax deduction for organ donation

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

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

: Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social service programs that subsidize abortion services

: Permits both public and private entities to conduct research utilizing embryonic and adult stem cells

: Provides tuition grants to war veterans who served in Iraq

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

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Reduces the certificate of need application fee

: Enacts provisions relating to emergency medical treatment

: Provides funding for umbilical cord blood banks and non-fetal human stem cell research

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program"

: Provides health insurance coverage for Phase II clinical trials for cancer treatment

: Provides for two-thirds income disregard for Medical Assistance for Families recipients

: WITHDRAWN

: Repeals the June 30, 2008, Medicaid Sunset Provision

: Extends FRA, Pharmacy Tax, Nursing Facility reimbursement allowance, and Medicaid managed care reimbursement allowance sunsets

: Authorizes peer review committees for certain emergency medical services

: Creates the healthcare technology fund.

: Modifies provisions in various health care and social services programs

: Creates the healthcare technology fund.

: Allows volunteer, out-of-state health care providers to be deployed during emergencies

: Establishes the "Joint Committee on Health"

: Amends requirements for workers' compensation benefit payments

: Establishes the "Prevention First Act"

: Requires large employers to dedicate a percentage of profits for health care costs

: Modifies various provisions relating to the state legal expense fund

: Amends the practice of chiropractic

: Modifies the student loan program for nursing students

: Modifies laws on mental health facilities and group homes for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Modifies laws of Missouri Health Insurance Pool

: Raises income limit for Medical Assistance for Families recipients

: Amends the law relating to physician assistants

: Creates the crime of "knowingly receiving, selling, or obtaining personal health information"

: Establishes the "Disabled Employee's Health Assistance Program (DEHAP)"

: Enacts a long-term care public-private partnership program

: Prohibits health care professionals from billing for anatomic pathology services not personally rendered

: Modifies provisions on students self-administering medication

: Enacts the "Affordable Prescription Drugs for All Missourians Act"

: Modifies provisions on personal care assistance services

: Modifies provisions of the Missouri Rx Plan Advisory Commission

: Directs the Department of Social Services to establish Coordinated Care and Administrative Service Organization pilot programs

: Changes licensing standards for physical therapist assistants, professional counselors, and clinical social workers

: Creates licensing standards for prescribing psychologists

: Modifies provisions on confidential medical test results

: Modifies provisions on senior citizens and the disabled

: Modifies provisions on the technical advisory committee on the quality of patient care and nursing practices

: Modifies definitions of ambulatory surgical centers to include certain abortion clinics

: Raises the Medicaid-eligibility level for old age assistance and permanently disabled recipients

: Regulates the licensing of naturopathic practitioners

: Creates a statewide consortium to be known as the "Umbilical Cord Blood Tissue Bank"

: Creates new Medicaid cancer benefits

: Modifies laws on mental health facilities and group homes for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Enacts multiple provisions regarding illegal aliens

: Modifies laws on the Metabolic Formula Distribution Program

: Establishes the reorganization of the state health care system

: Expresses support for Taiwan to have an observer status in the World Health Organization

: Imposes a tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:53 am