HEALTH CARE

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH CARE
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: Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing high levels of calcium.

: Excludes up to five thousand dollars of total cash value for life insurance policies from the definition of "resources" for purposes of Medicaid and Medicare eligibility.

: Waives the state's sovereign immunity for purposes of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

: Expands eligibility for the Missouri Senior Rx Program to include seniors with catastrophic drug costs.

: Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians.

: Requires health care professionals to inform their patients about EDTA chelation therapy.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding protection of the elderly.

: Creates the Missourians Helping Missourians Trust Fund.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Establishes the criteria for use of the title "registered nurse first assistant" and requires insurance coverage for the services provided by such assistants.

: Requires health insurance coverage for bone marrow testing.

: Requires the implementation of a state suicide prevention plan by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide educational material and information on prostate cancer screenings and testing.

: Requires the Department of Health to provide requesting hospitals with rape kits to aid in the identification of rape suspects.

: Requires long-term care facilities and adult day care programs to employ a food services director.

: Revises law on the licensing of nursing home administrators.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide hospitals with rape kits.

: Revises workers' compensation law.

: Adds necessary and reasonable medical expenses in addition to the per diem cost of incarceration for which the state must pay if the state is liable for costs in a criminal case.

: Requires insurers to issue a uniform prescription drug information card to enrollees.

: Requires health insurers to offer contraceptive coverage to enrollees.

: Changes the allowable supply of medication to be received by certain enrollees through a pharmaceutical plan and requires collection agencies to be informed when payments are made on patient accounts.

: Establishes a Medicaid Pharmacy Management Program in the Department of Social Services and a Joint Committee on Pharmacy Management.

: Increases the health insurance coverage for diabetes equipment and medications.

: Requires the release of information regarding Class I standard violations by nursing homes to newspapers, radio stations, and television stations.

: Revises law on licensing of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

: Regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine.

: Modifies the income eligibility categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Adds meningitis vaccine to the list of required immunizations for school children.

: Exempts diabetic medical supplies and devices from sales taxation.

: Amends various provisions regarding the standards for nursing homes.

: Revises the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

: Regulates dental services provided by not-for-profit corporations.

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic health information.

: Requires health insurers to treat mental health in the same manner as other medical services.

: Allows public hospitals to close portions of their records.

: Creates a cause of action for the fraudulent sale of health-related discount cards.

: Creates parity between institutional and noninstitutional eligibility for Medicaid.

: Enacts the Emergency Preparedness Resource Act.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services and personnel.

: Increases access to and health insurance coverage for chiropractic care.

: Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services.

: Provides for the completion of the newborn hearing screening if the newborn is transferred to another facility before the screenings are completed.

: Requires informed consent prior to the administration of mental health treatment and services.

: Repeals the Offices of Minority Health and Women's Health in the Department of Health and Senior Services and replaces them with the Division of Minority Health and the Division of Women's Health.

: Allows philosophical beliefs to be a basis for objection to required school immunizations.

: Allows persons to execute an advanced directive for mental health treatment.

: Enacts the Disposition of Human Fetuses Act.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the Department of Mental Health.

: Prohibits anyone from holding themselves out to the public as performing spinal manipulation without chiropractic training.

: Requires physicians to maintain adequate, complete, and legible written patient records for each patient.

: Expands the list of medical facilities and agencies that must report disciplinary actions.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding protection of the elderly.

: Provides health insurance coverage for hearing exams and hearing aids.

: Adds testing for various metabolic and genetic diseases to the list of newborn screenings and requires insurance coverage for such diseases.

: Revises health insurance laws.

: Modifies various provisions regarding long-term care insurance.

: Provides that certain health impairments shall be presumed to have been suffered in the line of duty unless the contrary can be shown by competent evidence.

: Makes various changes regarding certificate of need law.

: Enacts and amends various provisions regarding long-term care staffing, career ladder provisions, and quality of care issues.

: Establishes the Missouri Quality of Care Trust Fund to fund various long-term care initiatives and programs.

: Provides health insurance coverage for hearing examinations and hearing aids for children and persons who were diagnosed with hearing loss before they turned eighteen.

: Requires stretcher van services to be licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to use the National Medical Support notice to enforce health benefit plan coverage required in child support orders.

: Exempts any health carrier that is certified as a Medicare+Choice organization from filing a health care access plan.

: Allows persons treated by emergency medical care providers, health care providers, and Good Samaritans to be tested for contagious and infectious diseases.

: Modifies provisions regarding the confidentiality of the Department of Health and Senior Services' central registry information on genetic disorders and birth defects.

: Allows registered nurses to order therapies under collaborative agreements if the registered nurse is an advanced practice nurse.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provisions of in-home services to the elderly.

: Creates the state legal expense fund.

: Provides standards for assisted living facilities.

: Creates the State Board of Emergency Medical Services.

: Allows private-pay skilled nursing facilities to receive Medicaid reimbursement for residents who reside in the facility for more than one year without certificate of need review.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need laws.

: Requires health insurance coverage for clinical trials for treatment of cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

: Requires health insurers to provide coverage for a minimum of four mastectomy brassieres a year to insured who have had a mastectomy.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish nurse-to-patient staff ratios for hospitals.

: Excludes elected officials of the state of Missouri from receiving state health insurance benefits.

: Amends various provisions regarding the reporting requirements for long-term care facilities.

: Modifies the information required for delivery of prisoners to correctional centers.

: Allows programs for all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) projects an exemption from the certificate of authority requirements for health maintenance organizations.

: Allows offenders in correctional centers to obtain alternative health care at their own expense.

: Modifies various provisions relating to Missouri's certificate of need laws.

: Modifies the provisions regarding sanitation in and inspection of food establishments.

: Requires "medical necessity" to be determined solely by the treating licensed health care provider.

: Requires long-term care facilities to offer influenza and pneumonia vaccinations to their residents on an annual basis.

: Creates special license plates.

: Allows private-pay residents in a nonMedicaid skilled nursing facility to receive Medicaid without the facility having to meet the requirements of section 197.327.

: Creates the crime of transferring human fetal parts.

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

: Provides procedures for the comanagement of patients by optometrists and ophthalmologists.

: Modifies various provisions regarding air ambulance service.

: Enacts the Pharmacy Benefit Management Regulation Act.

: Urges Congress to redesign the ambulance fee schedule for Medicare reimbursement.

: Endorses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations on the judicious use of antibiotics.

: Requires hepatitis B testing, in addition to HIV testing, for crime victims and prisoners.

: Requires a health carrier to allow any qualified health care provider to participate in its network.

: Prohibits public hospitals from not employing any licensed physician who complies with all hospital rules.

: Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly.

: Allows a tax credit for persons who contribute to unplanned pregnancy resource centers.

: Creates the Missouri Council on Obesity Prevention.

: Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly.

: Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a hospital.

: Creates the Older Visually Impaired Missourians Fund.

: Creates the Missouri State Emergency Health Powers Act to address state public health emergencies.

: Clarifies the use of non-compete clauses in contracts between physicians and hospitals.

: Allows the state to temporarily license certain health care practitioners during a state public health emergency.

: Requires insurance companies to cover treatment for overweight and obese persons.

: Creates a tax credit for 25% of the unreimbursed cost of health insurance premiums paid by individuals.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing providers for non-therapeutic circumcisions.

: Requires health plans to cover all services provided or ordered by registered nurse first assistants.

: Drivers must take certain actions when emergency vehicle is approaching and obey signals of sheriff or deputy sheriff.

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all Missouri citizens.

: Allows a tax deduction for those who contribute to medical savings accounts.

: Makes several changes to the Sunshine Law governing meetings and records of public entities.

: Prohibits use of genetic information and testing for insurance purposes.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Insurance coverage for certain cancer screenings.

: Creates provisions relating to insurance mandates, reporting of health data, and the provisions of charity care.

: Requires insurers to offer optional coverage for weight reduction counseling services.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements.

: Regulates not-for-profit corporations providing dental services.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Requires disclosure of the transfer of human fetal parts for research purposes.

: Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications.

: Increases state emergency health powers.

: Requires ambulance service owners to carry liability insurance to cover negligent care by their employees.

: Allows enrollees to obtain managed care document via the internet.

: Requires physicians to maintain adequate and complete medical records for their patients.

: Revises laws on health insurance. Permits organ donations by persons sixteen years old.

: Modifies the certificate of need law.

: Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for twenty-four hours of inpatient care following surgery.

: Revises the moratorium on the certificate of need expenditure minimum for new beds.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: Creates a grant program for the establishment of an umbilical cord blood bank.

: Requires informed consent at least twenty-four hours before an abortion.

: Deems that documents filed by health services corporations and HMOs are not subject to change after 30 days.

: Creates provisions relating to insurance mandates, reporting of health data, and the provisions of charity care.

: Provides health insurance coverage for the treatment of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD).

: Establishes the Joint Committee on Health Care Policy and Planning.

: Revises certificate of need law and enacts a review certification procedure for acute care facilities.

: Extends the expiration date for the nursing facility reimbursement allowance to September 30, 2005.

: Outlines procedures for the comanagement of patients by optometrists and ophthalmologists.

: Extends the sunset for the Children's Health Insurance Program to July 1, 2007.

: Prohibits health carriers from changing health services codes without the permission of the physician.

: Requires informed consent by a women before the performance of an abortion.

: Requires parity between insurance coverage for mental health services and other health care services.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products and creates the "Fund for Lifelong Health".

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic health information.

: Requires certain facilities to provide immunizations for influenza and pneumonia to elderly residents.

: Modifies the law relating to health care professionals under the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

: Requires further accountability of first responders and emergency medical technicians.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need law.

: Exempts diabetic medical supplies from local sales taxes.

: Requires the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to accept continuing medical education on autism.

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Relates to the regulation and licensing of professional addiction counselors.

: Mandates coverage for fertility medications and requires insurers to offer coverage for other infertility services.

: Modifies provisions relating to air ambulance services.

: Allows the continuation of a newborn hearing screening from a transferring facility to a receiving facility.

: Imposes civil liability on any person violating Missouri's informed consent law for abortion.

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

: Urges Congress to adopt legislation requiring Medicare to cover all oral anti-cancer drugs.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am