List of persons to whom a license, certificate, permit or registration
was issued in the last fiscal year, required to be sent to Assessments
and Taxation Department to help identify new businesses ............

Nurse practitioners, authority to personally prepare and dispense
prescription drugs, provisions added ................................................

Nursing, State Board of, power and authority over nursing practice
and licensing requirements, provisions altered; election of officers,
time altered; Executive Director, provisions added.........................

Occupational Therapy Practice, State Board of, membership and
licensing provisions altered; termination date extended .................

Pharmacists, disciplinary action by State Board of Pharmacy,
percentage of members required to vote in favor of, provisions
altered.................................................................................................

Physical Therapists -
Health insurers prohibited from imposing time limitations on

receipt of covered services, provisions added ...............................

Licensing provisions amended ...........................................................

Physician licensing fee to be used to fund the physician rehabilitation
program and peer review activities, provisions altered; Board of
Physician Quality Assurance Fund and Board of Nursing Fund,
termination provisions repealed ........................................................

Physician Quality Assurance, Board of, bonding requirements and
regulatory authority altered, including provisions for fees, entering
contracts to purchase services, cease and desist orders and
injunctive relief, examinations, physician rehabilitation and peer
review, and records inspection ..........................................................

Podiatrists, provisions concerning discipline, investigations,
expungement of records, penalties, and limited license term,
altered; State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners authorized to
issue advisory opinions ......................................................................

Professional counselors, licensing examination and continuing
education requirements and fee provisions, altered; termination
date of State Board of Examiners, extended ...................................

Referral of patients by a health care practitioner to an entity in which
the practitioner has a beneficial interest or a compensation
agreement, and their reimbursement through insurance,

prohibitions added .............................................................................

Health Planning and Cost Review —

Complementary Medical Methods, Commission on, established .......

Health Care Policy, Financing and Regulation, appropriation to ......

Health insurance reform, including guaranteed access to coverage for
small employers, establishment of the Health Care Access and Cost
Commission, and implementation of cost containment strategies,
including practice parameters for physicians, provisions added .....

Health maintenance organizations, methodology used to determine
rate of payment of claims to a provider not under written contract,
prohibitions and requirements added ...............................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

351	1932
454	2422
422	2316
84	1173
89	1193
554	2773
85	1179
627	3064
629	3081
627	3064
88	1189
58	1015
376	2068
515	2620
8	381
	493
	522
9	529
304	1808