Priority of claims of health care providers in the event of
liquidation or rehabilitation, provisions added ............................
Health manpower shortage incentive grant program, appropriation to
Hospice care programs, regulation requirements, penalties, and peer
review program, provisions added.....................................................
In-network obstetrician/gynecologists, annual visit for routine care
for women who do not choose an obstetrician/gynecologist as their
primary care provider, coverage under health insurance and health
maintenance organizations, provisions added ..................................
Informed consent for HIV testing by a health care provider,
provisions altered ...............................................................................
Local health officers who are physicians, restrictions on practicing
medicine, altered ................................................................................
Medical care provider reimbursements, appropriation for .................
Medical malpractice, waiver of arbitration and subsequent filing of
complaint and notice of claim, provisions altered...........................
Medical review committees, definition expanded to include a
committee appointed by or established in an accredited health
occupations school .............................................................................
Methamphetamine and amphetamine, prohibition on practitioners
dispensing, repealed...........................................................................
Nursing license or certification, good moral character required of
applicant; grounds for disciplinary action, provisions amended .....
Obstetrician/Gynecologists, Task Force on, established; charges for
diagnostic lab testing processed outside the physician's office,
limitation repealed; graduate medical education issues, study and
report required....................................................................................
Optometrists, diagnostically and therapeutically certified,
certification requirements, quality standards, and scope of practice,
provisions added; continuing education requirements: for licensed
optometrists, provisions altered..........................................................
Participation in the Medical Assistance Program by all health care
practitioners as a condition of certification or licensure, study and
report required ...................................................................................
Pharmacist rehabilitation committee, allocation of money from the
State Board of Pharmacy Fund to, authorized ................................
Physician assistant/nurse practitioner training program, appropriation
for........................................................................................................
Privileged communication between professional counselors and
clients in judicial, legislative, or administrative proceedings,
provisions added.................................................................................
Tuition assistance grants to train mental health professionals, award
under the economic development student assistance grant
program, provisions added ................................................................
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INDEX
273
7
|
2126
495
|
153
154
|
1860
1863
|
159
|
1875
|
321
|
2251
|
507
7
|
2928
453
526
584
|
582
|
3336
|
74
|
1372
|
103
|
1458
|
542
|
3145
|
499
|
2865
|
521
|
2958
|
604
605
|
3431
3450
|
380
|
2469
|
7
|
494
|
587
|
3356
|
348
|
2354
|
|