Health professionals boards and commissions, appropriation to ...

Medicaid health plan fraud or making false representations
relating to Medicaid health plans, criminal penalties and
statutes of limitation, established .................................................

Medical care provider reimbursements, appropriation for .............

Medical information, disclosure by health and life insurers to
physician chosen by insured or applicant for insurance,
requirements added .......................................................................

Medical Records -

Disclosure by health care providers without the authorization of

the person in interest, provisions altered .................................

Maintenance, disclosure, destruction, and confidentiality,
provisions altered .......................................................................

Medical review committee proceedings, records, and files,
discovery and admissibility in evidence in civil actions,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Medical screening services, reimbursement of hospital emergency
facilities and providers by health maintenance organizations,
provisions amended ........................................................................

Methodology to determine health maintenance organization
payment to nonparticipating health care providers for services
provided under a Medicare contract, provisions altered .............

Nurse practitioner training program, appropriation to ..................

Nursing assistants, deadline for State regulation, advisory
committee to make recommendations, and report on proposed
legislation, provisions added .........................................................

Pharmacists, scope of practice and licensing, and standards of
practice and permitting of pharmacies, provisions altered.........

Pharmacy, State Board of, disciplinary and regulatory authority
altered, and Pharmacy Review Committee established ..............

Physician Assistants -

Authorization to write medication orders, provisions added ......

Termination of employment relating to quality of care issue,

reporting requirements added ...................................................

Training program, appropriation to ..............................................

Physician reimbursement methodology and distribution of
premium dollars, disclosure by health benefit plan providers in
enrollment sales materials, requirements added ........................

Podiatrists, scope of practice altered ................................................

"Point-of-service option", definition altered ...................................

Practice of a health occupation on an animal by a person licensed
to practice the health occupation, provisions altered ..................

Prescription forgery, introduction as evidence of affidavit of person
licensed to prescribe drugs, provisions added ..............................

Referral of health maintenance organization subscriber who is a
continuing care facility resident to the skilled nursing unit of
the facility for follow-up care after acute care services,
provisions added .............................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

3	156
713 3	4091 157 292
198	1906
185	1874
580	3181
696	4024
107	1583
199 3	1908 206
194	1889
614	3424
615	3450
540	2992
718 3	4107 206
145 182 697	1758 1842 4027
226	1978
391	2605
161	1792