24-hour toll free telephone access system to determine patient's
primary care provider and participating specialists at a given
hospital, use of system by hospital emergency department, and
authorization to use hospital's on-call health care providers for

emergency services, provisions added ..........................................

Health Occupations —

Acupuncturists, concealment and destruction of medical records
and reports and qualifications for licensure, compensation of
acupuncture board members, and Acupuncture Board Fund
administration and expenditure, provisions altered ...................

Alcohol and drug counselors, qualifications and waiver of
requirements for certification for certified associate counselor,
certified professional counselor, and certified supervised
counselor, and appointment as advisor to Board of Examiners of
Professional Counselors, provisions added ...................................

Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language
Pathologists, Board of Examiners of, appointment of audiologist
members, requirements added ......................................................

Certified social worker-clinical license, waiver of requirement for
supervision, provisions added .......................................................

Counseling pregnant women concerning testing for HIV virus and
confidentiality of test records, requirements added ....................

Dental hygienists, education requirements for examination and
licensing, and action to enjoin unauthorized practice, provisions
altered .............................................................................................

Electrologists, office inspection, and educational standards and
examination requirements for licensing, provisions added and
altered .............................................................................................

Emergency Medical Services -

Personnel who act to resuscitate a person when a "do not
resuscitate" order ordinarily would apply, immunity from
liability and a finding of unprofessional conduct, provisions

added ...........................................................................................

Providers, licensure or certification, provisions added, and
regulatory authority transferred from State Board of

Physician Quality Assurance to Emergency Medical Services
Board ...........................................................................................

Emergency medical technician—paramedics, immunity from civil
liability, provisions clarified ..........................................................

Health care practitioner payment system, implementation
delayed, and study and report requirements added....................

Health maintenance organization 24-hour toll free telephone
access system to determine patient's primary care provider and
participating specialists at hospitals, use of system by hospital
emergency department, and authorization to use hospital's
on-call physicians for emergency services, provisions added .....

Health maintenance organizations, calculation of coinsurance
payment from negotiated alternative rates, requirements added

Health Manpower Shortage Incentive Grant Program,
appropriation to ..............................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

363	2501
235	2006
461	2767
380	2571
545	3013
584	3223
691	4007
445	2727
195	1900
201	1912
561	3066
134	1728
363	2501
712	4090
3	207