HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

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

: 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

: Authorizes a physician assistant or an advanced practice nurse to prescribe a schedule V controlled substance under the collaborative practice agreement

: Allows a physician assistant or an advanced practice nurse to issue a physician's statement for disabled license plates and placards under the collaborative practice agreement

: Allows courts to consider the opinions and recommendations by a professional or member of the clergy in child custody proceedings

: Authorizes an advanced practice registered nurse to prescribe a controlled substance listed in schedule II, III, IV, or V under the collaborative practice agreement

: Prohibits certain aspects of human cloning except for somatic cell nuclear transfer and establishes the Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology Commission

: 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

: Requires insurers providing medical malpractice insurance to health care providers to establish premiums based on the average judgment in medical malpractice cases by county

: Authorizes a physician assistant or an advanced practice nurse to prescribe, administer, and dispense a controlled substance containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine

: 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

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

: Establishes the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance Act of 2006 and requires credentialing of sonographers and vascular technologists

: Authorizes an advance practice nurse to prescribe a controlled substance listed in schedule II, III, IV, or V under the collaborative practice agreement

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

: Establishes the Missouri Alternatives to Abortion Services Program and the Missouri Alternatives to Abortion Public Awareness Program

: Allows for the deployment of health care professionals licensed, registered, or certified in this or any adjoining state in an emergency and provides them immunity from civil damages

: Establishes the Registered Surgical Technologist Title Protection Act

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

: Requires licensed health care providers to notify a law enforcement agency when they examine or treat a person who is intoxicated and reasonably suspect that the person may attempt to operate a car

: 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 physician assistants

: Establishes the Registered Surgical Assistant and Registered Surgical Technologist Title Protection Act which requires their registration with the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

: 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

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

: Establishes the Missouri Health Profession Shortage Planning Commission to develop recommendations regarding the health profession workforce

: 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

: Establishes the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Act for Veterans Homes and the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Act for Mental Health Facilities

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

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

: 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

: Changes the laws regarding the practice of audiology and the duties of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

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

: Prohibits a health care professional from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a lethal dosage of any substance for the purpose of assisting in the death of an individual

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

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

: Revises the laws regarding disciplinary actions for certain professionals

: Changes the laws regarding licensure of nursing home administrators

: Allows unused or unaccepted drugs donated to the Prescription Drug Repository Program to be distributed to out-of-state charitable repositories

: Adds licensed physical therapists to the definition of "health practitioner"

: Establishes the Consumer Protection Act for Wheeled Mobility

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide the employee disqualification list to nursing or medical schools to check it against students participating in patient care services

: Provides that health care providers not charge fees greater than the usual and customary charges for treatment for a workers' compensation claim

: 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

: Prohibits the prescribing or dispensing of contraceptive drugs or devices to minors younger than 16 years of age without parental consent

: Establishes the Precious Doe Hotline for the reporting of missing and abused children and provides rewards through the Precious Doe Hotline Reward Fund for reports leading to arrests

: 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

: Extends the expiration date for the Technical Advisory Committee on the Quality of Patient Care and Nursing Practices from December 31, 2006, to December 31, 2011

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

: Changes the laws regarding medical malpractice insurance

: 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

: Creates qualifying standards for expert witnesses in certain cases, allows temporary licensing of out-of-state experts, makes some expert testimony inadmissible, and makes certain conduct unprofessional

: 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

: Creates the crime of procuring human oocytes by coercion, payment, or valuable consideration for use in research, treatment, or therapy

: Prohibits prescribing, dispensing, giving, or otherwise providing any contraceptive drug or device to an unemancipated minor without the consent of the minor's parent

: Limits the liability of volunteer medical professionals to actual damages and provides additional insurance coverage for legal expenses and actual damages not covered under the Legal Expense Fund

: Transfers the licensure of emergency medical technicians to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts and establishes the Advisory Commission for Emergency Medical Technicians

: 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.

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

: Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe certain controlled substances

: Allows physicians to jointly negotiate with certain health insurance carriers

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: Requires emergency contraceptives to be distributed by prescription only

: Protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery

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

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

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Requires laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rates when testing for kidney disease

: Reduces the certificate of need application fee

: Enacts provisions relating to emergency medical treatment

: Establishes a prescription monitoring program

: Enacts various changes with respect to the issue of medical malpractice insurance

: Prohibits health carriers and other organizations from changing health services codes without the permission of the physician

: Establishes the requirements for a written drug prescription

: Authorizes peer review committees for certain emergency medical services

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

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

: Requires medical malpractice insurers to file information with the Department of Insurance, and give notice prior to refusing to renew a policy of medical malpractice insurance

: Allows the Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association to provide various types of coverages and refund policyholder surcharges

: Amends requirements for workers' compensation benefit payments

: Modifies laws relating to medical malpractice insurance and establishes the "Health Care Stabilization Fund Feasibility Board"

: Modifies definitions and fees relating to audiologists

: Establishes the "Prevention First Act"

: Modifies various provisions relating to the state legal expense fund

: Amends the practice of chiropractic

: Modifies the student loan program for nursing students

: Modifies provisions regarding medical emergencies

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Requires all health care providers or first responders to be tested for Hepatitis C

: Amends the law relating to physician assistants

: Includes physical therapists in the definition of health practitioner for the purposes of liens

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

: Modifies law relating to medical fees for workers' compensation

: 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

: Relates to the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

: Regulates the licensing of naturopathic practitioners

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Enacts provisions to ban abortion in Missouri

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