State Board of Pharmacy -

Disciplinary and regulatory authority altered, and Pharmacy

Review Committee established ..................................................

Issuance of permits to distribute dialysis drugs and devices to

homes of dialysis patients, provisions altered..........................

Membership, filling vacancies, and recusal of member from

licensing exam duties, provisions altered .................................

Physical Therapists —

Tuition assistance program, appropriation to .................................

Physicians —

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

Disciplinary authority of Board of Physician Quality Assurance,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Emergency medical services providers, licensure or certification,
provisions added, and regulatory authority transferred from
State Board of Physician Quality Assurance to Emergency
Medical Services Board..................................................................

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 health care providers for emergency services, provisions
added ...............................................................................................

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

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 ........

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

Physician Assistants -

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

Termination of employment relating to quality of care issue,
reporting requirements added ...................................................

Physician Quality Assurance, Board of, appropriation to ..............

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

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 .............................................................................

Referral of patients to a health care entity in which practitioner's
immediate family owns an interest, provisions altered ..............

Reimbursement -

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

615	3450
508	2888
530	2967
3	206
584	3223
598	3310
201	1912
363	2501
713	4091
198	1906
185	1874
199	1908
540	2992
718 3 697	4107 156 261 4027
161	1792
253	2040